The recent Science paper “Integrating exposomics into biomedicine” offers the biomedical field a unified and operational definition of the “exposome” and the field of “exposomics”, addressing a knowledge gap as the field has long lacked a clear, succinct definition since the exposome was first introduced by Dr. Christopher Wild in 2005.
In December of 2023, 23 interdisciplinary scientists convened at the Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in an effort to advance the field of exposomics and to further the understanding of the environmental contributors to human disease and health, ultimately forming the Banbury Exposomics Consortium. This Banbury Conference fostered meaningful scientific exchanges and creative collaboration among a diverse team of professionals, which led to a successful meeting and the publication in Science that defines the Exposome and Exposomics as the following:
…the exposome is posited as an integrated compilation of all physical, chemical, biological, and (psycho) social influences that "impact biology". The field of exposomics thus examines the comprehensive and cumulative effects of these factors by integrating data from interdisciplinary methodologies and data streams to drive discovery.
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health highlights this perspective in the article “Can Technology Revolutionize Health Science? The Promise of Exposomics”.
