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1st November 2024

Xampla and Quadram Institute to advance probiotic microencapsulation technology

The Quadram Institute and materials innovation company Xampla and have been awarded Innovate UK and BBSRC grant funding to advance probiotic microencapsulation technology. The grant will see Xampla and the Quadram Institute collaborate on developing cutting-edge probiotic microcapsules, aimed at improving gut health. Probiotics...

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24th October 2024

Quadram Institute welcomes new House of Lords report on food, diet and obesity

Quadram Institute Interim Director Professor Martin Warren today welcomed a new House of Lords select committee report on the societal challenges around food, diet and obesity. The House of Lords select committee issued a call for evidence on food diet and obesity earlier this...

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30th September 2024

Centre for Microbial Interactions at Norwich Research Park launched to promote and support ground-breaking research by one of world’s largest communities of microbiologists

It represents one of the world’s largest concentrations of microbiologists on a single site, with over 100 microbiology research groups based at the Park’s Partner institutions and businesses. In recognition of microbiology’s critical role in addressing the major global challenges in human and environmental...

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26th September 2024

Best R&D award win for LettUs Grow Vitamin B12 biofortification

The winners of the Vertical Farming World Awards 2024 were announced on 25 September at a Gala Dinner during the 5th annual Vertical Farming World Congress in Frankfurt. The awards are organised by global food and drink experts Zenith Global. Celebrating excellence and innovation...

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11th September 2024

Ground-breaking study will use AI to explore links between chronic inflammation, diet and long-term health conditions

Researchers in the Quadram Institute are part of a pioneering £4.8m, eight-year programme that will harness artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate the link between nutrition, health inequality and the development of multiple long-term conditions. Led by the University of East Anglia (UEA), and with...

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11th September 2024

A Lung on a Chip: new tool to combat coronavirus

Researchers from the Quadram Institute working together with UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) have established a human “lung-on-chip” model that recreates how SARS-CoV-2 infects lung cells, in a contained laboratory environment. The model adapts current technology to allow cells that line the lungs in...

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6th September 2024

Quadram scientists inform new UK Innovate report on bacteriophages

Dr Evelien Adriaenssens, bacteriophage research group leader at the Quadram Institute, has helped inform a new UKRI Innovate UK report setting out how the UK could make much better use of bacteriophages or phage-based technologies to help tackle antimicrobial resistance and difficult to treat...

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3rd September 2024

Quadram Institute’s Heritage Open Day will uncover hidden worlds of health, food and microbes

From 10am to 3pm, the free event will let you discover the hidden worlds of health, food and microbes. The event is part of the nationwide Heritage Open Days, and this year marks the sixtieth anniversary of food research in Norwich. It is also...

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Dr Lizbeth Sayavedra

23rd August 2024

BBSRC Discovery fellowship for Lizbeth Sayavedra

Dr Sayavedra is one of 15 promising researchers around the UK to be awarded BBSRC fellowships and she will be researching nitrogen fixation in the human gut by sulphate-reducing bacteria. “It’s a real honour to be awarded this BBSRC Discovery Fellowship and I’m looking...

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Pomegranate fruit growing on trees

13th August 2024

Study in Norwich recruiting volunteers to test health benefits of a pomegranate extract

The TESSA study aims to understand how a pomegranate extract can change the production of compounds associated with increased heart disease risk. The TESSA study team is looking for 40 people whose diets include meat to take part in the research study. The compound...

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