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  • UCD leads €9 million EU funded research into personalised nutrition

    UCD logoUCD leads €9 million EU funded research into personalised nutrition

    UCD is to lead a major international research consortium to investigate if a person’s genetic make-up can help design their ideal nutritional diet.

    “The goal is to merge the scientific, sensory and socio-economic aspects and show whether personalised nutrition based on a person’s genes could deliver consumer benefits,” says Professor Mike Gibney, Director of the UCD Institute of Food and Health, who will coordinate the €9 million, Food4Me study.

    The four-year study, funded under the EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7), will investigate if an ideal nutritional diet could be designed on a person’s genetics as policymakers advance from a broad model of public health towards a more focused model of personalised nutrition.

    The concept of personalised nutrition followed the release of the human genetic blueprint in 2000. So far, the idea has not delivered on its early promise, but many companies have been quick to attempt to exploit the possibilities. Read on...

     

  • Prestigious European Funding Award for UCC Academic

    UCC LogoPrestigious European Funding Award for UCC Academic

    Dr Ron Pinhasi, a lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, UCC has become the first UCC Researcher to be awarded funding by the European Research Council (ERC). The European Research Council (ERC) is the first European funding body set up to support the best of the best research across all fields of scholarship. Of its two major funding programmes, the ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grants competition is designed to raise the status and visibility of European frontier research by identifying the next generation of top research leaders. Indeed, because of the focus on excellence and the highly competitive nature of their programmes, success in the ERC is now widely identified throughout Europe as being the newest and most significant barometer of a country's achievement and ranking in research. Read more...

     

  • Major Research Funding of over €12million Secured by University of Limerick

    University of Limerick logoThe University of Limerick has welcomed today's announcement by An Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD, and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O'Keeffe TD, of over €12million in research funding for a major new research centre at UL as well as significant support for advanced UL research programmes under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) Cycle V.
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