Valerolactones and healthy Ageing: LInking Dietary factors, nutrient biomarkers, metabolic status and inflammation with cognition in older adults.
VALID Team was present at the ILSI Symposium on ‘Nutrition for the Ageing Brain: Moving Towards Clinical Applications’ – in Madrid on 30 and 31 August 2018 with a Poster showing the last data emerged from the joint interpretation of Read More …
Exciting preliminary findings from the VALID study looking at the validity of plasma phenyl-γ-valerolactones as novel biomarkers of dietary polyphenols were presented by 1st year PhD student Ben at the recent Irish Section Nutrition Society Summer Meeting in Ulster University Read More …
JPI-VALID Team will be present at the 2nd Conference “FOOD BIOACTIVES & HEALTH” next 26-28 September 2018, hosted in Lisbon. Dr. Donato Angelino, from University of Parma, will give an oral presentation on the last updates on VALID study! See Read More …
Congratulations to the VALID research associate Katie Moore who recently passed her PhD viva on B-vitamins and the Ageing Brain. Special thanks to her external examiner Dr Tom Hill from Newcastle University, internal examiner Prof Chris Mitchell and Chair Prof Read More …
Two new papers about bioavailability and inter-individual variability of gut microbial metabolites of flavan-3-ols (and other polyphenols) have been published by the UNIPR group. Among the names, Dr. Pedro Mena and Prof. Daniele Del Rio . Most of the information spread Read More …
Our colleague Dr. Chris Gill wrote a great piece on “Ciencia & Vinho” blog by Dr. Paula Silva, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS) of University of Porto! Polyphenols of wine, gut microbiota and health effects were the main Read More …
Results from the TUDA study have shown that older people who live in disadvantaged areas have a greater risk of developing cognitive impairment (an early risk factor for dementia) than people in better off areas. The findings of this study, published in Read More …
Some of the VALID project team from Ulster University and Trinity College Dublin recently took advantage of attending the Nutrition Society Irish Section Postgraduate meeting at Queens University Belfast and met to discuss the Read More …
The NICHE team, leaded by Prof. Helene McNulty, published on the prestigious journal “Proceedings of the Nutrition Society” a review entitled “Diet, nutrition and the ageing brain: current evidence and new directions”. The manuscript, recently online, involves as first author Read More …
