Tailoring the human diet to match the individual's genome
Nutrigenomics is the study of the response of humans to food and food components using genomics, proteomics and metabolomics approaches.
The goal of nutrigenomics is to develop foods that can be matched to individual human genotypes to benefit the health of those individuals and enhance normal physiological processes.
Nutrigenomics will lead to the development of new foods for individualised health and nutritional benefit.
Emerging Focus Nutrigenomics
The Emerging Focus Nutrigenomics is part of the faculties plan of development and will continue and extend the research activities of the faculty of life sciences and the department of nutrition. The primary goal of the emerging focus is the evaluation of the associations of the metabolome with the genetic information and its consequences for general and individual nutrition. |
