Banbury Consortium

What is the Consortium?

The Banbury Exposomics Consortium is a team of 23 interdisciplinary scientists who convened at the Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in December of 2023 in an effort to advance the field of exposomics and to further the understanding of the environmental contributors to human disease and health.

Over the following several months, the consortium members prepared a manuscript that highlighted the results of the Banbury meeting.

The overarching purpose and objectives of the three day meeting was

1. developing an operational definition for exposomics that would ground the field
2. identifying the components of the biomedical enterprise that would benefit most from exposomics, and
3. outlining the major challenges a bonafide field of exposomics would need to tackle to advance our understanding of the environmental contributors to human health and disease.

This Banbury Conference fostered meaningful scientific exchanges and creative collaboration among a diverse team of professionals. This led to a successful meeting and the publication in Science titled "Integrating exposomics into biomedicine"  which aims to guide future research in the field. 

The Banbury Exposomics Consortium denfinition of the "exposome" and " exposomics" in "Integrating exposomics into biomedicine"

Briefly, 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.

Science Publication: "Integrating exposomics into biomedicine": https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr0544

Learn more about the Conference:
The 2023 Banbury Conference Meeting Report https://www.cshl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Banbury_EXPOS_Output_Two...

The Banbury Center: https://www.cshl.edu/banbury/

Articles: 

"Exposomics: Holistic health without the snake oil" : https://www.cshl.edu/exposomics-holistic-health-without-the-snake-oil/

The Banbury Exposomics Consortium and their recent publication in Science, "Integrating exposomics into biomedicine", was highlighted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in an article by Samuel Diamond.