Pollution's Impact on Brain Disease Development
Funds research proving the causal link between pollution exposure and neurological, neurodegenerative or neurodevelopmental disease, using biomarkers, imaging and long-term cohort data.
Pollution's Impact on Brain Disease Development is a European Commission grant that funds research proving the causal link between pollution exposure and neurological, neurodegenerative or neurodevelopmental disease, using biomarkers, imaging and long-term cohort data. This two-stage Research and Innovation Action evaluates its first stage blind — applicants must not reveal their organisation name…
Proposals must build evidence for a causal link between exposure to specific pollutants — in occupational, living or social environments — and neurological, neurodegenerative or neurodevelopmental diseases classified under ICD-11 chapters 6 and 8, focusing on one or more vulnerable or exposed population groups. Work should draw on the exposome framework, biomarker and imaging methods, and longitudinal or cohort data, and applicants are encouraged to use experimental methods that don't rely on live animals where the data would be equally valid. Any human biomonitoring or chemical-monitoring data collected must be shared through the EU's Information Platform for Chemical Monitoring, working with the Joint Research Centre, the European Chemicals Agency or another relevant EU agency.
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