Felip Miralles, Director of the eHealth Unit at Eurecat, presented PREVENTOMICS project during the xPatient Barcelona Congress, an annual forum about the change of the care model that empowers the patient and puts him at the center of the whole process. The Congress, attended by more than 350 attendees and over 50 speakers, has taken place in…
A nutritionally well-balanced diet is essential for the metabolic needs of the body to function throughout the lifespan. Consistent with this, the absence of a balanced diet is a well-recognised contributor to various health problems, including malnutrition, heart disease, stroke, cancer and type 2 diabetes, amongst others 1-3. Each person reacts differently to the same nutritional…
Nutrition and dietary habits are among the most relevant factors affecting human health. This fact makes the capacity to evaluate in great detail a person’s dietary intake paramount to become able to understand the association between diet and health. The assessment of dietary intake currently relies on traditional methods, such as food frequency questionnaires, dietary…
PREVENTOMICS project has been presented during the IX Seminar on Healthy Nutrition and Lifestyle habits, which took place in Barcelona on July 23-24. Antoni Caimari, PREVENTOMICS’ daily technical coordinator and director of Eurecat’s Biotechnology Area, delivered a presentation on personalised nutrition as a tool to prevent the onset of chronic diseases: from the evaluation of metabolic performance…
In the last century, we have achieved the maximum lifespan that the human being has ever experienced. Advances in hygiene, medicine and technology underlie this record. But this increase in lifespan does not come for free, since we are now familiar with some diseases associated to ageing that centuries ago were almost unknown, such as…
PREVENTOMICS technical partners have meet in Catalonia’s Government Delegation in Brussels to discuss on interventional studies design and protocols, as well as align technical partners and nutrition experts. The meeting has taken place on July 2 2019. It consisted on a review of each interventional study, which will be deployed in the United Kingdom, Poland,…
PREVENTOMICS technical partners have met on June 19-20 in Athens to discuss on platform design and communication interfaces specifications. The Information Management Unit of the Institute of Communication and Computer Sciences (ICCS), as task leader, hosted the meeting, that served for designing PREVENTOMICS software architecture and brainstorm on the functionalities of the project’s platform and user experience.…
PREVENTOMICS partner OAFI attended to the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) congress, which was celebrated on June 12-15 in Madrid. OAFI handed out project brochures to all attendees approaching their booth (V26 – Hall 10) and exposed PREVENTOMICS rollup in their booth. EULAR is the organisation representing European rheumatism patients, health professionals and scientific societies…
PREVENTOMICS Technical Supervisor Josep Ma del Bas has attended to the latest SC2 Coordinators Day, taken place in Brussels on June 6th. PREVENTOMICS has been presented during the Healthy Diets and Food Cluster Session, together with SHEALTY, FOX, Stance4Health, PROTEIN and NUTRISHIELD projects. Download here the presentation delivered SC2 Coordinators Day consisted of an overview of the Societal Challenge 2:…
PREVENTOMICS project was presented within the Health Ingredients Conference of the Free from Functional Foods Expo (FFFE), taking place on May 28-29 in Barcelona. Project coordinator Eurecat delivered a presentation on PREVENTOMICS project and personalised nutrition as a tool for preventing chronic diseases, from the assessment of metabolic performance to the deployment of business models. Increased lifespan in…
