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Molecular Targets Open for Regulation by the gut flora New Avenues for improved Diet to Optimize European health (TORNADO)

Reference	BBS/E/F/00042572
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Arjan Narbad
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Professor Nathalie Juge
Institution	Quadram Institute Bioscience
Department	Quadram Institute Bioscience Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	264,100
Status	Completed
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/09/2009
End date	31/08/2014
Duration	60 months

Abstract

Europe is facing major diet related health problems. Attitudes to eating habits have to be changed and the benefits of alternative treatment regimes substantiated. This can only be achieved by providing guidelines regulating health claims based on scientific data. Thus, there is a unique opportunity to use gut flora in potential treatment regimes and as a preventive target for major diet related health problems. TORNADO consortium of which IFR is a partner, proposes a systemic and comprehensive mechanistic approach to deliver scientific data that can be compiled as guidelines for European authorities. TORNADO will determine the influence of diet on the gut flora and highlight the impact of gut flora on the immune system/other organ systems. TORNADO aims to investigate molecular targets that are subject to regulation by gut flora and diet that sustain health. This will be done by an increasing level of specificity, from (1) investigations of dietary habits and health in population cohorts, through (2) intervention studies in humans and animals. TORNADO will deliver data that can be used to recommend biomarkers for evaluating effects of diet or microbes. TORNADO’s program will accelerate future design of personalized functional food for specific target groups.

Summary

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	Diet and Health, Immunology, Microbiology
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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