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About Mentoring for Health
Mentoring for Health represents a groundbreaking initiative in the field of precision nutrition, particularly in its focus on lung cancer patients. By integrating diverse data sets from genomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, the project aims to provide personalized dietary recommendations that address the unique nutritional needs of each patient. The project’s innovations in both technology and methodology promise to revolutionize the approach to cancer care, potentially reducing the economic burden of the disease while improving the quality of life and survival rates of patients.
The project’s interdisciplinary nature, combined with its focus on digital health and precision nutrition, positions it to make substantial contributions to the broader field of non- communicable diseases, offering hope for more effective and personalized treatments in the future.
Mentoring for Health aims to confront these challenges by creating a comprehensive precision nutrition model tailored to lung cancer patients, which can also be applied to other malnourished or metabolically impaired populations. The ultimate goal is to improve patients’ nutritional, metabolic, and immunological status, enhance their QoL, increase treatment emcacy, and potentially improve survival rates. The project is set to last 48 months with a budget of 4,031,666€.
The Consortium
The German Cancer Research Centre (Germany): specializes in systemsbiology and mathematical modeling to understand molecular mechanisms that regulate cell communication and tumor development.
IMDEA Food Institute Precision Nutrition & Health (Spain): is a leading European research centre focused on precision nutrition aimed at preventing and treating prevalent chronic diseases, including cancer.
Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (Portugal): focuses on glycosylation mechanisms in cancer and their implications for therapy.
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems (Germany): specialises in glycomic, glycoproteomic, and proteomic analysis.
University of Parma (Italy): Hosts the Microbiome Research Hub focuses on the microbiome’s impact on health and the personalisation of dietary interventions.
Infanta Sofía University Hospital (Spain): is a public hospital providing specialised, high-quality care in Northern Madrid. The hospital focuses on the development of the digital platform and volunteer patient recruitment.
