CONSORTIA
Here you will find more information on all the (inter)national research projects the Mansuy lab is involved in.
STRESS
HMZ Flagship Project
Millions of people across all ages are affected by stress. Stress has long-term negative consequences on mental and physical health and is a strong risk factor for chronic conditions, particularly psychiatric and cardiovascular diseases. The prevalence of stress-induced diseases has become of major concern in the past years.
The STRESS project will develop a dynamic and radically innovative research program based on state-of-the-art methodologies to create a paradigm shift in the current thinking about stress-induced diseases and novel therapeutic approaches.
EARLYCAUSE
Horizon 2020
Stress experienced in the early stages of life – from pregnancy to adolescence – is common and pervasive, affecting up to 75% of pregnant women (and the unborn baby) and nearly 50% of children, with long term consequences for development and health. The EarlyCause project will study the hypothesis that early life stress (ELS), a well-established risk factor for depressive, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders individually, is a cause of multi-morbidity in these disorders.
FAMILY
Horizon Europe
The FAMILY consortium will systematically integrate the family context in the study of mental disorders. Families will be considered as an extra source of information beyond only individual information and allow the understanding and identification of the risk of transmission of mental illness from parents to offspring.
HappyMums
Horizon Europe
HappyMums is designed to improve our understanding on the biological mechanisms underlying the development of depressive symptoms in pregnancy, and the efficacy of possible therapeutic interventions.
HappyMums will interrogate a large collection of cohorts with multiple biological, medical, clinical, socio-demographic and environmental and lifestyle data to identify the most important risk factors for depressive symptoms in pregnancy, but also possible moderators of the risk.