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
We are involve in research to improve people’s life
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.
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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Secondment of Ricardo Gómez-García from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (PT) to EVRA S.r.l (IT)
Welcom to EVRA Even after I arrived at EVRA company in Lauria, Italy, I was already expecting that this mobility would be a great chance to increase my competencies, skills [...]
Secondment of Chema Lagaron to SONAE
My second secondment in SONAE within the frame of the H2020 project FODIAC envisioned the evaluation of our encapsulates produced by electrohydrodynamic technology in different food matrices. The studied food [...]
Secondment of Emma Talón Argente (BIOINICIA S.L.)
I started my secondment in April 2022 at the Food Processing and Nutrition Group, at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), located in Braga (North of Portugal). Since my early [...]
Secondment of Aimara De La Cruz Molinara to SONAE
My last secondment as part of the FODIAC project took place at SONAE where I visited the warehouses and supermarkets. During that visit, we talked about the fruits that [...]
Secondment of Maria Pardo Figuerez to UMINHO
Bioinicia’s R&D member Maria Pardo went to work on encapsulation and characterization techniques for a month at the University of Minho in Portugal. For me, as my 2nd secondment [...]
Secondment of Jose Luis Palau Aloy (BIOINICIA S.L.)
To be honest, I must say that the very first impression after arriving at Porto airport was a bit disappointing. I started my secondment in Spring, leaving my hometown [...]
Secondment of Vasco Martins to BIOINICA
From the 25th of October 2021 to the 25th of February 2022, my four-month secondment gave me the opportunity to have a fantastic and unique experience at BIOINICIA and [...]
FODIAC webinar series 4.0: Electrohydrodynamic Processing and Electric Fields Processing
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FODIAC webinar series 2.0: Electric Fields Processing
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 [...]
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
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