Objective
NutriTech will build on the foundations of traditional human nutrition research using cutting-edge analytical technologies and methods to comprehensively evaluate the diet-health relationship and critically assess their usefulness for the future of nutrition research and human well-being. Technologies include genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, laser scanning cytometry, NMR based lipoprotein profiling and advanced imaging by MRI/MRS.
All methods will be applied in an integrated manner to quantify the effect of diet on “phenotypic flexibility”, based on metabolic flexibility (the capacity for the organism to adapt fuel oxidation to fuel availability). However, NutriTech will move beyond the state-of-the-art by applying these integrated methods to assess the underlying and related cell biological and genetic mechanisms and multiple physiological processes of adaptation when homeostasis is challenged. Methods will in the first instance be evaluated within a human intervention study, and the resulting optimal methods will be validated in a number of existing cohorts against established endpoints.
NutriTech will disseminate the harmonised and integrated technologies on a global scale by a large academic network including 6 non-EU partners and by providing an integrated and standardised data storage and evaluation platform. The impact of NutriTech will be multifold and exploitation is crucial as major breakthroughs from our technology and research are expected. This will be achieved by collaboration with a consortium of 8 major food industries and by exploitation of specific technologies by our 6 SME partners. Overall, NutriTech will lay the foundations for successful integration of emerging technologies intro nutrition research.
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Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2011-5
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CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
2595 DA Den Haag
Netherlands
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Participants (23)
80333 Muenchen
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SW7 2AZ LONDON
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0313 Oslo
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6708 PB Wageningen
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4 Dublin
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9002 Varna
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69007 Lyon 7eme
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00161 Roma
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14005 Cordoba
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6703 HD Wageningen
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1200 Bruxelles / Brussel
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72770 Reutlingen
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4032 DEBRECEN
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0349 Oslo
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6703 HA WAGENINGEN
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6020 Innsbruck
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T5J 4P6 EDMONTON ALBERTA
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M5S 1A1 Toronto
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2601 Acton Act
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1010 Auckland
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28049 Madrid
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02155 Medford Ma
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80145 Napoli
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