The Nutrition Researcher Cohort 2014 Study

Summary

The primary objective of the planned Nutrition Research Cohort (NRC) n250 study is to develop and evaluate the open access Nutrition Researcher Cohort for gathering personal health data from nutrition researchers, including analytical methods, standards and operation procedures, data infrastructure, ethical and privacy aspects, and governance.

Besides, the study aims to exploit and analyse data on food, nutrient and bioactive compound intake and exposure, biomarkers for food, health and/or disease and health and/or disease related measurements to study the relation between nutrition, health and development of disease (on individual level).

In addition, data will be used to develop applications that visualise personal health risks based for example on (validated) recommendations and applications that predict individual health risks.

The study is designed as an open, one-group, exploratory cohort study. The total NRC cohort will be composed of about 250 life sciences employees and students from different, predominantly European, countries. This allows optimal involvement of participants in shaping all aspects of the cohort and the ownership of data. We aim to recruit about in total 20 male and female scientists per participating country.

Conditions

• Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
• Health
• Biological Markers

Interventions

OTHER

Research activities

Measurements are primarily based on "do-it-yourself" non-invasive or minimally invasive methods. Participants upload collected data to the Personal Health Portal. The measurements are divided into required and optional measurements. The required measurements mainly include routine methodology (e.g. weight, blood pressure, blood glucose); the latter also include methods under development that will be fine-tuned along the project. Which additional measures will be offered to participants is dependent on if funding or in-kind sponsoring is available. Participants will receive measurement kits for these analyses at-home and will be responsible for collection, labeling and shipment of samples themselves. After analysis the resulting data are uploaded to the user accounts.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Eastern Finland

  collaborator OTHER

• Lund University

  collaborator OTHER

• NIHS

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Barcelona

  collaborator OTHER

• University College Dublin

  collaborator OTHER

• Newcastle University

  collaborator OTHER

• Technical University Munchen

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Oslo

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Copenhagen

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Graz

  collaborator OTHER

• Tufts University

  collaborator OTHER

• Charles University, Czech Republic

  collaborator OTHER

• NuGo

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• VITAS Analytical Services

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  collaborator OTHER

• CSIRO Animal, Food and Health Sciences

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• SwissAnalysis AG

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux Research Station ALP

  collaborator OTHER

• CRA NUT - Centro di Ricerca per gli Alimenti e la Nutrizione

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• TNO

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• André Boorsma, PhD · TNO

• Baukje de Roos · Newcastle University

• Giuditta Perozzi · CRA-NUT

• Lorraine Brennan · University College Dublin

• Christophe Matthys · University Leuven

• Irina Dobre · University of Copenhagen

• Miroslav Petr · Charles University Prague

• Andre Mazur · INRA - French National Institute for Agricultural Research

• Guy Vergères, PhD Dr · Agroscope Liebefeld-Posieux Research Station ALP

• Marjukka Kolehmainen · University of Eastern Finland

• Sandra Wallner · Med Uni Graz

• Cristina Andres-Lacueva · University of Barcelona

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-01-31

Primary Completion

2025-01-31

Completion

2025-01-31

Countries

• Austria
• Belgium
• Czechia
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Ireland
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Spain
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom

Study Locations