Major Nutrigenomics Project Gets Underway; Awarded €17.3 Million

European researchers have been awarded €17.3 million to drive forward the field of nutritgenomics, a little-known subject that could shape the future of nutrition. The six-year study into ways in which food and genes interact currently has 22 partners from 10 EU member states and is led by Dr Ben van Ommen of Dutch Centre for Human Nutrigenomics. Studies of diet-gene interactions have been underway for a number of years but until now researchers have generally been limited to investigating one, or at most, a handful of genes, at any one time and single or simple groups of nutrients rather than whole foods.