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Impact of food on health - linking genomics, nutrition and health research (NuGO)

Reference	BBS/E/F/00041798
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Dr S Astley
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr Ian Johnson, Dr Francis Mulholland
Institution	Quadram Institute Bioscience
Department	Quadram Institute Bioscience Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	165,121
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/01/2004
End date	30/06/2010
Duration	78 months

Abstract

NUGO will ensure rapid and effective exploitation of both established and newly emerging (post) genomic technologies within nutrition research across Europe. This vision will be achieved through the development of programmes for monitoring and evaluating new technologies, optimisation and validation of current and newly adopted nutrigenomic platform technologies, standardisation and harmonisation throughout the Network, sharing and co-ordinated expansion of facilities. Eventually, NUGO aims to create a "virtual nutrigenomics facility centre" among its partners, offering cutting edge (nutri)genomic technology by optimally harmonising and exploiting its major investments in technology. Initial objective include: Establishment of an expert group for innovation monitoring and evaluation and co-ordination of standardisation efforts. Review of the network's current and planned functional genomic research capacities and projection of future requirements both network-wide and at the European level. Development of MIAME/Nut, a set of guidelines defining the minimum descriptors required to interpret unambiguously and potentially reproduce and verify array-based nutrigenomic experiments. Development of a scheme for promoting effective platform technology sharing and dissemination of established expertise. Definition of best experimental practice for microarrays and proteomic experiments.

Summary

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Committee	Closed Committee - Agri-food (AF)
Research Topics	Diet and Health
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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