The CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) and Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (IUF) established a joint research group on environmental and genetic epidemiology of aging in PICB on May 24, 2013.
The joint research group aims at exploring the environmental and genetic factors affecting population aging, a severe problem in both China and Germany. And particularly, it focuses on air pollution exposure and its interaction with genes, and the role of systemic inflammation on ageing-related outcomes in an elderly Chinese population.
PICB was jointly founded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Max Plank Gesellschaft (MPG) of Germany in Shanghai, China in October 2005. The Institute has been dedicated to contribute to the development of the life sciences, aiming at bridging theoretical and experimental work in biology and unveiling life’s secrets through mathematical methods.
IUF was founded in Germany in 2001. In 2007, it became an associated member and in 2011 a full member of the Leibniz Association. Its mission is to carry out molecular preventive medical research in the field of environmental health. The main objective is the analysis and evaluation of risks to human health that result from environmental factors in order to improve health protection and to develop new preventive and therapeutic strategies.
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