Investigators: Graham Hall, Rachel Foong
Collaborators: The LifeCycle Consortium (European)
The overarching concept of The LifeCycle Project is innovative research on the role of novel integrated markers of early-life stressors that influence health across the lifecycle using an open and long-term network of cohort studies that started during pregnancy or childhood.
The €10 million EU grant "LIFECYCLE" brings together European, UK and Australian population-based cohorts with a common interest to understand early life stressors influencing the development of the life course of health and disease.
LIFECYCLE is a significant and visionary project to establish an integrated set of long-term world-wide cohorts and clinical trials, which can be investigated and compared across the full life of cohort participants. It begins before conception, during pregnancy or at birth, and covers the full life-course. Project data will definitively identify exposures, mechanisms and interventions in early life that lead to impaired cardiovascular, respiratory and mental health throughout the full life-course. LIFECYCLE will translate findings into risk models, intervention strategies and e-health applications focused on parents-to-be and young children to improve health for new generations.