Latest projects
Food4Me: Personalised Nutrition - An Integrated Analysis
Our project will explore the business, consumer and public health aspects of personalised nutrition to determine whether dietary advice based on an individual's genes could deliver consumer benefits.
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Research Area: Food and nutrition
FoodRisC - Benefit and Risk Communications
This study will explore perceptions and communications of food risks/benefits across Europe and the development of effective communication strategies
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Prof Patrick Wall, Dr Áine Connon
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The aim of the project is to provide consumers with added confidence in the authenticity of European food through complete traceability along the entire farm to fork food chain.
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Obesity, diabetes and diet
Our project involves working with our collaborators to develop The National Centre for Diet and Health.
Lead by: Cecily Kelleher
Research Area: Food & nutrition
Functional foods
This project intends to tap into an intelligence in milk, over and above its nutritive value.
Lead by: Dolores O'Riordan and Mike Gibney
Research Area: Food science
National Adult Nutritional Survey
In order to allow a greater understanding of nutrition and genomics, this study proposes to add genetic information to the traditional biochemical measures of food consumption.
Lead by: Mike Gibney
Research Area: Food & nutrition
Marine functional foods
The Marine Functional Foods Research Initiative (MFFRI) will focus on increasing our ability to identify new marine ingredients and products.
Lead by: John O'Doherty
Research Area: Food production
Safe and healthy foods
This project will develop a system to monitor food safety and health issues, the results of which will be used to improve food safety standards.
Lead by: Francis Butler
Research Area: Food Biosystems
Diet, genes and health
With the goal of promoting optimal health, our project will conduct a detailed exploration of how genes and diet combine to affect human health.
Lead by: Mike Gibney
Research Area: Food & nutrition
Private regulation of food safety
This project explores the origins, legitimacy and potential effects of private food safety standards schemes.
Lead by: Donal Casey
Research Area: Food regulation
Public perception of food risk
By exploring how public perceptions of food risk are formed, this project will aid the development of more effective government health campaigns and policies.
Lead by: Patrick Wall
Research Area: Food and the consumer