FODIAC: Food for Diabetes and Cognition
WHAT IS FODIAC?
The purpose of FODIAC is the development of an integrative dietary solution to tackle type 2 diabetes and mitigate the cognitive dysfunction among the elderly population by developing a functional food. FODIAC further aims to enhance the quality of Research & Innovation in Europe, promoting international, intersectoral cooperation among all stakeholders along the Food Value Chain (network of stakeholders involved in growing, processing, and selling the food that consumers eat).
This is achieved through an advanced international and intersectoral cooperation between 7 academic and 8 non-academic partners. For this purpose, FODIAC assembles a European multi/interdisciplinary consortium, composed of partners in 5 countries that provide expertise in:
Extraction and purification of bioactive molecules
Nanotechnology
Nano/micro-encapsulation
Toxicology
Nutrition
Biomarkers
Clinical trial management
WHO WE ARE
FODIAC assembles a European multi/interdisciplinary consortium, composed of partners in 5 countries that provide expertise in: extraction and purification of bioactive molecules, nanotechnology, nano/micro-encapsulation, toxicology, nutrition, biomarkers and clinical trial management.
WHAT WE DO
The overall R&I objective of FODIAC is to develop an integrative dietary solution and functional food to tackle diabetes and the associated impairment of the cognitive function among the elderly by the development of bioactive ingredients, and functional foods and diets.
OUR OBJECTIVES
FODIAC achieves its objectives by coordinating the actions of individual Academic and Industrial partners. FODIAC uses secondments (96 months of eligible R&I Staff Exchanges), training courses, seminars and workshops as tools to capitalize on complementary competences.
We are involve in research to improve people’s life
We are an advanced international and intersectoral consortium composed by individual partners, academic and industrial (7 academic and 8 non-academic partner) focused on understand how dietary intervention strategies using an appropriate combination of foods containing functional ingredients (polyphenols) with proven bioactivity can be used to reduce Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and mitigate the decay of cognitive function among the elderly.
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WHO WE ARE?
FODIAC assembles a European multi/interdisciplinary consortium, composed of partners in 5 countries that provide expertise in: extraction and purification of bioactive molecules, nanotechnology, nano/micro-encapsulation, toxicology, nutrition, biomarkers and clinical trial management.
The overall R&I objective of FODIAC is to develop an integrative dietary solution to tackle diabetes and the associated impairment of the cognitive function among the elderly by the development of bioactive ingredients, and functional foods and diets.
This is achieved through an advanced international, intersectoral, cooperation between 7 academic and 8 non-academic partners.
FODIAC builds on BiValBi FP7-IRSES results, a successful project where the team was already responsible for gaining knowledge in the recovery of bioactive compounds from food wastes, and the encapsulation of those compounds for food applications. FODIAC will go further, by focusing on understand how dietary intervention strategies using an appropriate combination of foods containing functional ingredients (polyphenols) with proven bioactivity can be used to reduce Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and mitigate the decay of cognitive function among the elderly.
The actions of individual partners, academic and industrial across the whole food value chain, using Exchange of Staff as a tool to capitalize on complementary competences.
Our experts keeping you up-to-date with our projects´ news
Secondment of Chema Lagaron from CSIC to Decorgel
Great time at the facilities of the food company Decorgel in Porto area within the frame of the H2020 project FODIAC. My secondment envisioned the development of enhanced biopolymer [...]
Secondment of Jorge Teno Díaz to INL
Bioinicia´s R&D member Jorge Teno Diaz spent two months at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) in Portugal within the frame of FODIAC. The INL allow me work in [...]
Secondment of Maria Pardo Figuerez and Alberto Chiva from BIOINICIA to INL
Bioinicia´s R&D members Maria Pardo and Alberto Chiva spent a month at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL)in Portugal within the frame of FODIAC. Within the frame of [...]
FODIAC webinar series 1.0: Discover the Food of the future now
Which projects are currently on going? How will be the food of the future? How can it improve or way of live? What are FODIAC partners working on? Discover [...]
Secondment of Lorenzo Pastrana from INL to BIOINICIA
I spent four weeks in Bioinicia in two periods between the summer and Christmas 2019. In addition to performing technical activities and experiments, I had many meetings (and bears) [...]
Secondment of Matteo Bianchi to University of Reading
I arrived in Reading on November 11th to begin my month-long secondment in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Reading. I found Reading a [...]
Secondment of Assia Giolli to CSIC
In November, I had the great opportunity to participate in the fodiac project as a secondment, I spent a month in Valencia at Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de [...]
Secondment of Pedro Miguel Silva to BIOINICIA
I left Portugal on the 15th of September to start my new journey in Valencia for a research stay of three months at BIOINICIA. I was [...]
Secondment of Anna Barbara Duca to University of Minho
The FODIAC project gave me the opportunity to carry out an educational and research experience at the Biological Engineering Center of the University of Minho. For [...]
GLOBAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM. WORLD CLASS RESULTS.
We work as a multi/interdisciplinary consortium with specific objectives, generating knowledge, skills, and technology to the industrial sector
AMPARO VERDÚ
BIOINICIA
MANUELA PINTADO
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
PAULA FAJARDO
ANFACO
MARIA JOSÉ CHAPELA
ANFACO
HIPÓLITO MONTEJANO
BIOINICIA
JOSE MANUEL VALLE
BIOINICIA
PAULA CABANES
BIOINICIA
DÉBORA CAMPOS
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
NUNO AFONSO
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
ANA SAMPAIO
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
MARIA HELENA BRISSOS FERREIRA
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
ANTONIO NUNES
PAULO MARGARIDO
MADDALENA BAITIERI
ROB GLENN
JOSE MARIA LAGARON CABELLO
CSIC
GUILLERMO SANJUANBENITO GARCIA
CSIC
DOMENICO GORGOGLIONE
EVRA
ALESSANDRO BUCALOSSI
CASA EMMA
OUR PARTNERS
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