How is EarlyBirds driving innovation in NutriTech to tackle malnutrition and obesity? - Kalkine Media

Highlights

• Technology can play a key role in finding possible solutions to address the global crisis of malnutrition.
• NutriTech, a consortium of 23 partners from 16 countries, aimed to quantify the effects of an individual’s diet on their phenotype flexibility.
• EarlyBirds can connect governments and private corporations with innovators by using the capabilities of its open innovation ecosystem.

It is a cliché, but it holds true to say that technology is believed to be among the most promising solutions to address the global crisis of malnutrition. The use of leading-edge analytical technologies to assess the diet-health relationship and significantly evaluate their utility for the future of nutrition research, and human well-being was studied under the NutriTech project of the European Commission.

NutriTech embodies technologies such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, laser scanning cytometry, NMR-based lipoprotein profiling, and advanced imaging by MRI or MRS.

Fight against global hunger and obesity

NutriTech was a consortium of 23 partners from 16 countries and included six non-EU groups. The goal of this consortium was to quantify the effects of an individual’s diet on their phenotype flexibility.

There were 31 papers published and 2 datasets released when this concluded in 2016. Each of these made a significant contribution to the present literature on phenotype flexibility.

EarlyBirds is helping in the fight against global hunger and the obesity epidemic by connecting governments and private corporations with innovators. These innovators are the ones who are making great strides in researching and developing feasible NutriTech solutions.

How can EarlyBirds help?

EarlyBirds believes that its open innovation ecosystem can play a pivotal role in expediting NutriTech programs and initiatives using its platform, services, and capabilities. For instance, dynamic ecosystem maps can be created on the basis of certain nutrition themes.

Early Adopter organisations intending to get insight into presently accessible global innovation capabilities can have their choice of the best of them to leverage their solutions, form partnerships, and bring their proof of concepts to the market.

The Explorer program offered by EarlyBirds is suited for businesses that need innovation as a service to supplement existing innovation programs or to conduct innovation projects as required.

Another program, the Challenger program, can help to solve a single business or technical challenge at a time. This program also enables searching for relevant innovators that meet the business, technical, commercial, and business risk requirements.

You can find out more about EarlyBirds and its services on its website.