Chemical and Toxicological Fingerprinting Infrastructure (Contaminomics)
Novo Nordisk Foundation
University of Copenhagen
There is growing scientific evidence that unexpected, unmonitored and unregulated contaminants are present in the environment. Despite public concern, risk assessment continues to be based on a limited number of chemicals, although hundreds of thousands of chemicals are produced and sold in Europe every year. The challenge is particularly evident when only a small fraction of the measured toxicity of an environmental sample can be explained by currently monitored chemicals. The proposed infrastructure will enable us to measure chemical and ecotoxicological fingerprints concurrently. By measuring the chemical composition and the bioactivity of a complex sample in the same workflow and through consistent, coherent data analysis workflows we will build data libraries and competences that can significantly accelerate the identification of unknown bioactive compounds in environmental samples.
Research Infrastructure / Infrastructure / Award