Exposome Lab, Canada

Certification Status: Complete Education
Registration Status: Completed

Objective: To date, most research has focused on understanding individual relationships between a person’s exposures, or risk factors with select primary and secondary outcomes. However, the complexity of external and individual exposures, the interactions and correlations between those exposures (social, mental and physical conditions) and disease-disease interaction as well as the way a person’s body responds to those exposures and interactions are not understood. Our research integrate big data, social, epidemiological, basic, and clinical information collected in ongoing retrospective and prospective funded studies to identify exposome risk profiles that can predict negative clinical outcomes in people living with HIV, and associated syndemics of STBBIs, tuberculosis and pneumonia.

Registered Biobank Name Exposome Lab
Biobank Leader Zulma Rueda
Country Canada
Email for biobank inquiries zulma.rueda@umanitoba.ca
Principal Investigator Zulma Rueda, Yoav Keynan
User Type
  • Mono: A biobank that supports a specific research project, may have few staff members, a small-scale accrual scope with little to no initial intention of releasing or distributing biospecimens to secondary parties
  • Oligo: A biobank that supports several research groups or clinical trials, may or may not be designed to release biospecimens outside their collaborative group
  • Poly: A biobank that has generally a larger accrual scope, resources, and multiple users outside the biobank proper
 Oligo - Collection aimed at supporting several research projects, a research group or a research consortium
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