University of Manchester to Lead £50m Centre on Environmental Links to Chronic Diseases

University of Manchester to lead £50m centre on environmental links to chronic diseases

A new £50 million MRC centre led by the University of Manchester will investigate how environmental exposures contribute to chronic inflammatory conditions, aiming to uncover new prevention and treatment strategies The University of Manchester is launching a new £50 million research centre to investigate how environmental exposures contribute to the development of chronic diseases. Backed by the Medical Research Council, the centre will bring to…

New £50m MRC Centre to study how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases

The environment is increasingly acknowledged to play a critical role in our risk of developing diseases, with 30,000 deaths attributed to air pollution alone in the UK each year. A new research centre based at The Universities of Manchester and Oxford will turn the attention of world-leading immunologists toward understanding how the totality of environmental factors we are exposed to over our lifetimes, known as “the exposome”, rewire our immun…