Date: 2014-03-20
Type of information: R&D agreement
Compound: microbiome
Company: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore) Nutricia Research (The Netherlands)
Therapeutic area: Digestive diseases
Type agreement: R&D
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Details: * On March 20, 2014, A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Nutricia Research, the R&D organisation behind Danone Nutricia Early Life Nutrition and Nutricia Advanced Medical Nutrition, have joined forces to investigate the health benefits of prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics. Under the three-year research collaboration agreement, GIS’ microbial genomics team and the Nutricia Research Early Life Nutrition team will seek to understand the effects of nutrition on the development of intestinal microorganisms or ‘gut microbiome’. These are microbes that exist in harmony with the human host; the composition of which can have an impact on health. It is known that gut microorganisms perform processes that aid digestion, synthesise vitamins, and create essential enzymes not produced by the human body. Researchers want to investigate how nutrition supports microbiome in early life, can help prevent disease later in life. The Nutricia Research team will be conducting two nutritional clinical studies, while the GIS team will provide state-of-the-art genomic analyses to better understand the complex microbial communities in study populations.
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