Paolo Vineis[1] (born 10 October 1951, in Alba) is an Italian professor of Environmental Epidemiology at Imperial College London.
This includes the use of omics technologies in epidemiological studies, that is the quantitative measurement of global sets of molecules in biological samples using high-throughput techniques, in combination with advanced biostatistics and bioinformatics tools.
[4] The exposome refers to the totality of internal and external exposures which interact at a cellular and systems level to generate a metabolic/ molecular signature which can be used to gain new understanding of the transition from health to disease.
Paolo Vineis is also the coordinator of the Horizon 2020[5] LIFEPATH project,[6] whose aim is to understand the determinants of diverging ageing pathways among individuals belonging to different socio-economic groups.
Paolo Vineis is also the director of the Unit of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Italian Institute of Genomic Medicine (IIGM), Turin, Italy.