Projet MediHealth (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2015)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Chemistry
Statut du projet : CLOSED

The main goal of the MediHealth project is to introduce a novel approach for the discovery of active agents of food plants from Mediterranean diet and other global sources to promote healthy ageing. This will be achieved through an extended and well-balanced scheme of researcher’s secondments between 5 universities and 4 enterprises from EU & Associated countries as well as 4 universities from Third countries. A mutual scientific project developed on the needs and interests of both sectors exploiting the existing complementary expertise will be the base of this proposal. Plants from the Mediterranean diet and food plants from TC will be rationally selected and will be subjected to an integrated, interactive and comprehensive platform including in silico, in vitro (advanced cell-based assays), in vivo (flies and mice models) & metabolism assessment. Advanced analytical techniques will embrace the pharmacological evaluation process for the efficient isolation and identification of bioactive plant constituents. Pharmacological profiling of bioactive natural products as well as identification and synthesis of their metabolites will be carried out. Finally, to carry to the stage of development innovative products in the area of nutraceuticals/dietary supplements process-optimization studies will be performed. Within this project, core scientific multidisciplinary knowledge from different research areas will be integrated creating valuable synergies. Expertise will be transferred by means of the seconded researchers training in environments with different research orientation where complimentary skills are required. Special attention will be given to dissemination activities aiming to public awareness of benefits of healthy diet(s). MediHealth aspires to comprise a successful model promoting considerably researchers’ competences and long-lasting collaboration between Industry and Academia generating innovation potential at the European and global levels.

Mots clés : food plants, diet, aging, metabolic syndrome, phytochemistry, natural products, metabolism, analytics, extraction, isolation

Participants :
- University of Antwerp (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 130500.0 €
- Universidad Católica del Norte (Chili) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Bionorica (Austria) (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 58500.0 €
- Tshwane University of Technology (Afrique du Sud) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 103500.0 €
- University of Sfax (Tunisie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University (Viêt Nam) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- University of Geneva (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 153000.0 €
- Rousselet centrifugation (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 90000.0 €
- Universität Innsbruck (Autriche) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 288000.0 €
- Vivacell biotechnology gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 18000.0 €
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 292500.0 €
- Galenica farmakeftiki vidmichania anonymos etairia (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 90000.0 €