Functional Food Center , Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
09/20/2018-09/21/2018
Main Conference Topics/SessionsSession 1: Functional Food Definition and the Status of Functional Foods in Japan, China, USA and other Countries - The regulations, policy, and labeling of functional foods in Japan
- Weaknesses and strong points of FOSHU/Food for Special Health Usage
- What is the status of Functional Foods in the USA? Expert opinions from NIH, USDA, and FDA
- How the new definition of Functional Foods can help to improve the status of functional foods word wide
Session 2: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Obesity - Epidemiology of obesity
- The modern mechanisms of obesity; energy metabolism and obesity; neurobiological mechanisms of obesity; microbiological mechanisms of obesity; pathophysiologic mechanisms of obesity
- Biomarkers of obesity
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of obesity
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for obesity
Session 3: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Diabetes - Epidemiology of diabetes
- The modern mechanisms of diabetes
- Biomarkers of diabetes
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of diabetes
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for diabetes
Session 4: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Neurological Diseases - Epidemiology of mental and neurological diseases
- Mechanisms of neurological diseases
- Biomarkers of different mental and neurological diseases
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of neurological diseases
- Functional foods for mental and neurological diseases
- Nutrition, Functional and Medical foods for neurological diseases
Session 5: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) - Epidemiology of CVD
- Biomarkers of different cardiovascular diseases
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of cardiovascular diseases
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for CVD
Session 6: Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Cancer - Epidemiology of Cancer
- Biomarkers of different types of cancer
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of different types of cancer
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical Foods for the Cancer
Session 7: Functional Foods with Bioactive Compound(s): Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases - Functional foods and other non-communicable diseases
- Bioactive compounds and other non-communicable diseases
- The effects of medical food on biomarkers of non-communicable diseases
Session 8: Safety of the Bioactive Compounds and Functional Foods - Food-Drug Interactions
- Safety of bioactive compounds at efficacious levels
- Safety of functional foods at efficacious levels
- Regulatory issues and health claims
Session 9: Biomarkers and Functional Food - Biomarkers and functional foods
- Biomarkers available for assessing diet-related changes
- How can biomarkers improve functional food products development process?
- The importance of Monitoring Biomarkers in Functional food Science
- FDA’s Biomarker Qualification Program and creation of new functional foods
Session 10: MicroRNAs from foods - DietaryRNAs
- MicroRNAs from foods
- MicroRNAs are bioactive compounds
- Bioavailability of MicroRNAs
Special Session (11): Coffee consumption benefits and adverse events: Session Chair: Gabriela Riscuta MD, CNS, Program Director, Nutritional Science Research Group, Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA - Coffee composition and nutritional information
- Identification and quantification of bioactive compounds in coffee
- Coffee and its consumption: Benefits and risks, epidemiological and clinical studies
- Coffee consumption and risk of chronic disease: Clinical and epidemiological studies
- Functional properties of coffee and coffee by-products
Special session(12): Bioavailability of bioactive compounds: - Food structuring and bioaccessibility/ bioavailability
- Edible delivery systems for bioactive compounds
- Micro- and nano-encapsulation
- Impact of processing technologies/conditions on bioaccessibility/ bioavailability
- Underlying mechanisms of bioaccessibility/ bioavailability
Special session(13): Dietary Nitrite and Nitrate. Session Chair: Nathan S. Bryan, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Human Genetics,Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA - Chemistry and biology of nitric oxide
- Oxidative stress and nitric oxide
- Production and consumption of nitric oxide
- The role of inorganic nitrate and nitrite in cardiovascular disease
- Nitric oxide supplements and muscle growth
- Dietary nitrite and nitrate: potential mechanisms of cardiovascular benefits
- Are nitric oxide supplements safe?
Special session(14): Functional Foods in Chronic Kidney Disease. Session Chair: Amrendra Ajay, PhD, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA - Epidemiology of Chronic Kidney Disease
- The modern mechanisms of Chronic Kidney Disease
- Biomarkers of Chronic Kidney Disease
- The effects of functional food and bioactive compounds on biomarkers of Chronic Kidney Disease
- Nutrition, Functional, and Medical foods for Chronic Kidney Disease
Session 15: Current Research and Development of New Functional Food Products. - Incentives for functional food research and development
- Consumer acceptance of functional food products
- Functional food composition and dietary intake databases
- Food vehicles for delivery bioactive compounds
- Research, development and marketing of new functional food products
Session 16: Nutritional Approach to Manage Chronic Allergies with Functional Foods - Chronic allergies: What causes them and what are the symptoms?
- Functional foods in the management of food allergy
- Dietary management of chronic food allergy in children
- The role of nutrition in the development and functioning of the immune system
- The role of prebiotics and probiotics in the prevention of chronic allergy
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Invited Speakers:
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Uma Naidoo, MD Amrenda Ajay, PhD Mache Seibel, MD Danik Martirosyan, PhD Jin-Rong Zhou, PhD Leena Pradhan-Nabzdyk, PhD Hossein Mirmiranpour, MD, PhD Md Nunrunnabi, PhD Karen Lau Manashi Bagchi, PhD Harry G. Preuss, PhD, Professor Georgios Pyrgiotakis, PhD Debasis Bagchi, PhD Nancy J. Emenaker, PhD Gabriela Riscuta, MD, CNS George Perry, PhD Dolores del Castillo, PhD Pongsak Rattanachaikunsopon, PhD Hairong Cheng, PhD, Professor Laila Al-Shaar
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