ALEC Study Collaborating Partners

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Ageing Lungs in European Cohorts ALEC Study

Horizon 2020 European Union EU

Horizon 2020

COLLABORATING COHORTS

Below are links to the cohort studies involved in the ALEC Study

ALSPAC

AVON LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN

ECRHS

European Community Respiratory Health Study

GA2LEN

Global Allergy and Asthma European Network

GEIRD

Gene Environment Interactions in Respiratory Diseases

NFBC

Northern Finland Birth Cohort

RHINESSA

Respiratory Health in Northern Europe, Spain and Australia

Sapaldia

Swiss Study on Air Pollution and Lung Disease in Adults

TAHS

Tasmanian Longitudinal Health Study

Principal Investigators and Partners

Professor Debbie Jarvis, Imperial College (London, UK)
Professor John Henderson, University of Bristol (UK)
Dr Judith Garcia-Aymerich, ISGlobal (Barcelona, Spain)
Professor Cecilie Svanes, University of Bergen (Norway)
Professor John Holloway, University of Southampton (Southampton)
Professor Nicole Probst-Hensch, Swiss TPH (Basel, Switzerland)
Professor Simone Accordini, University of Verona (Italy)
Professor Thorarinn Gislason, Landspitali University Hospital (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Dr Bénédicte Leynaert, INSERM (Paris, France)
Professor Dennis Nowak, Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich, Germany)
Professor Shyamali Dharmage, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Coordinating Centre Staff

The ALEC Study co-ordinating team is based at the National Heart and Lung Institute, part of Imperial College in London:

Professor Debbie Jarvis
Dr Cosetta Minelli
Dr Elaine Fuertes
Mr Alex Adamson
Ms Laura Portas
Mrs Sabrina Kapur
Mr James Potts

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