Host-Microbiome Factors in Cardiovascular Disease

Description

The goal of the group's work is to create data-based models that show how the human host and the microbiome develop together under different conditions toward health or disease. In order to be able to interpret and make use of all this data, we have to distinguish between causality and correlation, and also between effects that result from treatment and those that result from the disease. To achieve this, the groups is analyzing data gained using high-throughput methods from human hosts and microbiome, taking into account metadata on disease development, nutrition, and lifestyle. The goal is to achieve a highly accurate, quantitative understanding of host-microbiome interaction that can be translated into personalized therapies for the future. (Description adapted from working group website: see link above)