Metabolomics for monitoring dietary exposure
Lead Research Organisation:
Aberystwyth University
Department Name: IBERS
Abstract
There is strong evidence that dietary choices modulate risk of developing a range of chronic diseases and strategies for reducing disease burden emphasize the importance of changing dietary patterns. Current public health guidelines have common themes that encourage consumption of specific food groups, for example, oily fish, wholegrain foods, fruits and vegetables whilst reducing intakes of fatty and sugary foods. To maximise the effectiveness healthy eating interventions in the UK (and elsewhere), we need validated population screening methods with which to measure food consumption before, during and after the intervention. Conventional dietary survey methods are a considerable burden for study participants and are subject to bias. In addition, the processing and analysis of dietary data is extremely labour intensive with the net result that such dietary survey information may be difficult to validate. Such difficulties limit the ability to interpret the outcomes of healthy eating interventions.
Significant advances have been made recently in developing 'biomarkers' of dietary intake based on metabolites found in urine or blood but, currently, chemical biomarkers are available for only a relatively small number of specific foods and food components and most are of uncertain validity.
Funded largely by the UK Food Standards Agency the research teams in Aberystwyth, Newcastle and Imperial College have used metabolomics approaches to develop a novel strategy for discovery of new biomarkers of food intake. "Metabolomics" describes the measure of all (or many) of the metabolites (small molecules) in biological fluids such as blood or urine. Following digestion, absorption and metabolism, foods give rise to thousands of different metabolites in the human body and the appearance of certain metabolites is characteristic of particular foods. In our earlier work, we have developed urine sampling methods potentially suitable for use in population studies and have explored the use of comprehensive, non-targeted chemical analysis of urine (metabolomics technology) to identify dietary biomarker leads. Using this approach, we have identified potential biomarkers for several foods of high public health significance including oily fish such as salmon, citrus fruit, other fruit such as raspberries and the green vegetable broccoli. We thus now intend to test the hypothesis that the chemical composition of urine samples from free-living individuals will accurately reflect dietary intake.
The research programme will have the following major aims:
1. To identify chemicals in urine associated with recent consumption of specific foods deemed to have high public health importance.
2. To demonstrate a quantitative relationship between the amount of each specific food eaten and each potential chemical 'biomarker' in urine samples.
3. To validate a simple urine sampling procedure that is minimally intrusive to the every day activities of individuals participating in dietary surveys.
4. To assess the performance of dietary exposure biomarkers in the prediction of habitual diet in the UK.
The research strategy will be designed to integrate where possible with major surveys of UK dietary habits which will offer future opportunity to determine whether the adoption of biomarker technology improves the cost effectiveness and accuracy of population-level dietary surveys. In addition there will be distinctive advantages in future longitudinal studies aiming to generate definite links between disease risk and individual habitual exposure to specific foods. The results of this research will provide data to allow statuary bodies to refine dietary advice provided to consumers as well as offering further opportunity to interact with food producers, manufacturers and retailers to encourage provision of foods targeted to improve the overall health of the UK population.
Significant advances have been made recently in developing 'biomarkers' of dietary intake based on metabolites found in urine or blood but, currently, chemical biomarkers are available for only a relatively small number of specific foods and food components and most are of uncertain validity.
Funded largely by the UK Food Standards Agency the research teams in Aberystwyth, Newcastle and Imperial College have used metabolomics approaches to develop a novel strategy for discovery of new biomarkers of food intake. "Metabolomics" describes the measure of all (or many) of the metabolites (small molecules) in biological fluids such as blood or urine. Following digestion, absorption and metabolism, foods give rise to thousands of different metabolites in the human body and the appearance of certain metabolites is characteristic of particular foods. In our earlier work, we have developed urine sampling methods potentially suitable for use in population studies and have explored the use of comprehensive, non-targeted chemical analysis of urine (metabolomics technology) to identify dietary biomarker leads. Using this approach, we have identified potential biomarkers for several foods of high public health significance including oily fish such as salmon, citrus fruit, other fruit such as raspberries and the green vegetable broccoli. We thus now intend to test the hypothesis that the chemical composition of urine samples from free-living individuals will accurately reflect dietary intake.
The research programme will have the following major aims:
1. To identify chemicals in urine associated with recent consumption of specific foods deemed to have high public health importance.
2. To demonstrate a quantitative relationship between the amount of each specific food eaten and each potential chemical 'biomarker' in urine samples.
3. To validate a simple urine sampling procedure that is minimally intrusive to the every day activities of individuals participating in dietary surveys.
4. To assess the performance of dietary exposure biomarkers in the prediction of habitual diet in the UK.
The research strategy will be designed to integrate where possible with major surveys of UK dietary habits which will offer future opportunity to determine whether the adoption of biomarker technology improves the cost effectiveness and accuracy of population-level dietary surveys. In addition there will be distinctive advantages in future longitudinal studies aiming to generate definite links between disease risk and individual habitual exposure to specific foods. The results of this research will provide data to allow statuary bodies to refine dietary advice provided to consumers as well as offering further opportunity to interact with food producers, manufacturers and retailers to encourage provision of foods targeted to improve the overall health of the UK population.
Technical Summary
In collaboration with colleagues at the MRC Human Nutrition Research, we have identified a panel of foods of high public health importance suitable for exposure monitoring in urine using biomarker technology. Free-living volunteers will consume these specific foods as part of everyday eating patterns over 3 days before collection of urine and blood for identification of potential biomarkers.
The timings of specific meals and of biofluid collection will be pre-determined to facilitate investigation of the duration of food-derived metabolite signals and the most informative urine collection strategies. In addition, 400 study participants consuming their usual diets will be recruited. We will estimate habitual dietary intake using the EPIC FFQ and collect "spot" urine samples. This population sample will be used to test the utility of putative metabolite biomarkers of dietary intake.
NMR and LC-MS technology will be used to generate comprehensive metabolite profiles of urine samples. Supervised data mining methods will identify signals explanatory of exposure to specific foods. Targeted NMR and accurate mass FT-ICR-MS will be used to structurally annotate metabolites with biomarker potential. Targeted analytical methods will be established to simultaneously measure several biomarker signals (e.g. using MRM approaches) in urine.
In controlled residential food intervention studies, volunteers will be asked to consume known amounts of test foods for which we have identified potential biomarkers and urine and blood will be collected at defined intervals for up to 3 days after consumption. We aim to describe the kinetics of signal decay and to determine the quantitative relationships between food intake and urinary metabolite concentrations.
Biomarkers proving informative will be tested for utility using dietary data and urine samples from both recent National Diet and Nutrition Survey studies (24hr urines) and the 400 "spot" urines from the present study.
The timings of specific meals and of biofluid collection will be pre-determined to facilitate investigation of the duration of food-derived metabolite signals and the most informative urine collection strategies. In addition, 400 study participants consuming their usual diets will be recruited. We will estimate habitual dietary intake using the EPIC FFQ and collect "spot" urine samples. This population sample will be used to test the utility of putative metabolite biomarkers of dietary intake.
NMR and LC-MS technology will be used to generate comprehensive metabolite profiles of urine samples. Supervised data mining methods will identify signals explanatory of exposure to specific foods. Targeted NMR and accurate mass FT-ICR-MS will be used to structurally annotate metabolites with biomarker potential. Targeted analytical methods will be established to simultaneously measure several biomarker signals (e.g. using MRM approaches) in urine.
In controlled residential food intervention studies, volunteers will be asked to consume known amounts of test foods for which we have identified potential biomarkers and urine and blood will be collected at defined intervals for up to 3 days after consumption. We aim to describe the kinetics of signal decay and to determine the quantitative relationships between food intake and urinary metabolite concentrations.
Biomarkers proving informative will be tested for utility using dietary data and urine samples from both recent National Diet and Nutrition Survey studies (24hr urines) and the 400 "spot" urines from the present study.
Planned Impact
Who will benefit from this research?
This proposal aims to help future studies to investigate more efficiently the challenging question of the effect of dietary exposure on disease prevention - health - or causation. We therefore anticipate that this research will have a wide range of beneficiaries (in addition to the academic community) including:
- Regulators with responsibilities in the area of food and health e.g. the European Food Safety Authority and the UK's Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes,
- The food industry including those developing novel foods or food ingredients aimed at personalised nutrition and those advising consumers,
- Manufacturers of analytical platforms and software tools for metabolomics analyses,
- The general public.
How will they benefit from this research?
Regulators with responsibilities in the area of food and health are currently exerting considerable effort to get across the message to consumers about the benefit to health and well being of including, for example, sufficient amounts of fruit and vegetables (F & V) in their diet. However, their effort is pre-empted by the conflicting conclusions resulting from current epidemiological and dietary intervention studies in humans. Within the next 4-5 years this project will provide food biomarker technology that will allow future researchers to generate objective quantitative measures of habitual dietary exposure at the population level in the UK. Quicker and cheaper high throughput methods to assess dietary exposure will support the scale up of longitudinal population surveys to allow links to be made between exposure to specific food and future health risks.
Thus any health outcomes associated with dietary trends can allow regulators to develop even stronger messages to persuade the general public to change eating habits.
It is anticipated that there would be incremental integration of biomarker technology into population studies, starting with validation of the present dietary recording tools, particularly for monitoring accurately exposure to the individual components of composite meals. As the 'coding' of meals from diet diaries is extremely time consuming (as well as a source of much experimental inaccuracy) it is expected that the availability of validated food biomarker technology would allow organisations responsible for diet habit monitoring to simplify the data collection protocols, making the surveys more cost effective.
Outcomes from this research will provide the food industry with more robust measures and tools for R&D in the area of personalised nutrition and it is anticipated that impact will be realised within the next 5 years.
A deep understanding of metabolites in urine will help manufacturers of mass spectrometers and NMR instruments to develop new data processing and data annotation software tools more adapted to human nutritional metabolomics.
The general public are expected to benefit from this project in at least 3 ways i) through provision of objective information about the complex interactions of humans with their diet; ii) by enhancing the quality and robustness of evidence which will be required to elaborate and support dietary recommendation on consumption of healthy foods, and iii) by encouraging the food industry to focus on the marketing of food products with proven health benefits.
What will be done to ensure that they have the opportunity to benefit from this research?
We will disseminate the outcomes from the research project via the conventional route of academic publications using open access journals where possible. This will ensure widespread access by all stakeholders to the project outcomes following the important quality assurance step of peer review.
In addition, we will present findings on an on-going basis via conference presentations targeting conferences and workshops attended by diverse user groups including industry and regulators.
This proposal aims to help future studies to investigate more efficiently the challenging question of the effect of dietary exposure on disease prevention - health - or causation. We therefore anticipate that this research will have a wide range of beneficiaries (in addition to the academic community) including:
- Regulators with responsibilities in the area of food and health e.g. the European Food Safety Authority and the UK's Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes,
- The food industry including those developing novel foods or food ingredients aimed at personalised nutrition and those advising consumers,
- Manufacturers of analytical platforms and software tools for metabolomics analyses,
- The general public.
How will they benefit from this research?
Regulators with responsibilities in the area of food and health are currently exerting considerable effort to get across the message to consumers about the benefit to health and well being of including, for example, sufficient amounts of fruit and vegetables (F & V) in their diet. However, their effort is pre-empted by the conflicting conclusions resulting from current epidemiological and dietary intervention studies in humans. Within the next 4-5 years this project will provide food biomarker technology that will allow future researchers to generate objective quantitative measures of habitual dietary exposure at the population level in the UK. Quicker and cheaper high throughput methods to assess dietary exposure will support the scale up of longitudinal population surveys to allow links to be made between exposure to specific food and future health risks.
Thus any health outcomes associated with dietary trends can allow regulators to develop even stronger messages to persuade the general public to change eating habits.
It is anticipated that there would be incremental integration of biomarker technology into population studies, starting with validation of the present dietary recording tools, particularly for monitoring accurately exposure to the individual components of composite meals. As the 'coding' of meals from diet diaries is extremely time consuming (as well as a source of much experimental inaccuracy) it is expected that the availability of validated food biomarker technology would allow organisations responsible for diet habit monitoring to simplify the data collection protocols, making the surveys more cost effective.
Outcomes from this research will provide the food industry with more robust measures and tools for R&D in the area of personalised nutrition and it is anticipated that impact will be realised within the next 5 years.
A deep understanding of metabolites in urine will help manufacturers of mass spectrometers and NMR instruments to develop new data processing and data annotation software tools more adapted to human nutritional metabolomics.
The general public are expected to benefit from this project in at least 3 ways i) through provision of objective information about the complex interactions of humans with their diet; ii) by enhancing the quality and robustness of evidence which will be required to elaborate and support dietary recommendation on consumption of healthy foods, and iii) by encouraging the food industry to focus on the marketing of food products with proven health benefits.
What will be done to ensure that they have the opportunity to benefit from this research?
We will disseminate the outcomes from the research project via the conventional route of academic publications using open access journals where possible. This will ensure widespread access by all stakeholders to the project outcomes following the important quality assurance step of peer review.
In addition, we will present findings on an on-going basis via conference presentations targeting conferences and workshops attended by diverse user groups including industry and regulators.
Organisations
- Aberystwyth University (Lead Research Organisation)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Lisbon (Collaboration)
- ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Liverpool John Moores University (Collaboration)
- Abbott (Collaboration)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Collaboration)
- University of Barcelona (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- University of Bologna (Collaboration)
Publications
Lloyd AJ
(2019)
Addressing the pitfalls when designing intervention studies to discover and validate biomarkers of habitual dietary intake.
in Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society
Wilson T
(2019)
Spot and Cumulative Urine Samples Are Suitable Replacements for 24-Hour Urine Collections for Objective Measures of Dietary Exposure in Adults Using Metabolite Biomarkers.
in The Journal of nutrition
Garcia-Perez I
(2020)
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Dietary metabotype modelling predicts individual responses to dietary interventions.
in Nature food
Maruvada P
(2020)
Perspective: Dietary Biomarkers of Intake and Exposure-Exploration with Omics Approaches.
in Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.)
Lloyd A
(2020)
Developing community-based urine sampling methods to deploy biomarker technology for the assessment of dietary exposure
in Public Health Nutrition
Beckmann M
(2020)
Calystegines are Potential Urine Biomarkers for Dietary Exposure to Potato Products.
in Molecular nutrition & food research
Beckmann M
(2020)
A Standardized Strategy for Simultaneous Quantification of Urine Metabolites to Validate Development of a Biomarker Panel Allowing Comprehensive Assessment of Dietary Exposure.
in Molecular nutrition & food research
Ni Lochlainn M
(2021)
Nutrition and Frailty: Opportunities for Prevention and Treatment.
in Nutrients
Description | EiT-Health Innovation Coordination Committee |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://eithealth.eu/ |
Description | MRC/NIHR event for OSCHR: Review of Nutrition and Human Health Research - Workshop 7th & 8th July 2016, London |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Data-driven integration of emerging technologies to generate a Standardised and Objective Dietary Intake Assessment Tool |
Amount | £2,540,470 (GBP) |
Funding ID | MR/W028336/1 |
Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2022 |
End | 08/2027 |
Description | Dietary patterns, microbiome, metabolome and cardiovascular disease risk in transitioning India |
Amount | £49,367 (GBP) |
Funding ID | MR/T008504/1 |
Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2019 |
End | 07/2021 |
Description | Direct support for EIT Health Nutrition and Healthy Living Partnering Workshop |
Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Government of Wales |
Department | Welsh Government Food and Drink |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2015 |
End | 05/2015 |
Description | EIT-Health Innovation by Design Project: Cook 2 Health |
Amount | € 496,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | EIT-Health 2016 |
Organisation | European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) |
Sector | Public |
Country | Hungary |
Start | 03/2016 |
End | 12/2018 |
Description | EIT-Health Innovation by Design Project: FACET |
Amount | € 254,000 (EUR) |
Funding ID | EIT-Health 2016: 1.1.3 |
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Country | Hungary |
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End | 12/2018 |
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Funding ID | Future Foods |
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Department | Welsh European Funding Office |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2018 |
End | 10/2021 |
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End | 11/2018 |
Description | Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships |
Amount | £68,000 (GBP) |
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Department | European Social Fund |
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Start | 06/2016 |
End | 06/2019 |
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Amount | £12,000,000 (GBP) |
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Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2014 |
End | 11/2018 |
Description | UK Consortium for MetAbolic Phenotyping (MAP UK) |
Amount | £2,138,277 (GBP) |
Funding ID | MR/S010483/1 |
Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2019 |
End | 05/2024 |
Title | Postable urine sampling kit for community use |
Description | A kit for the collection of urine samples in community setting has been validated and commercialised with the first 5000 units manufactured in November 2017. These kits are now under test in several clinical trials |
Type Of Material | Biological samples |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The urine sampling kit has been adopted by several clinical trials but there are no notable impacts as yet |
URL | https://www.co-vertec.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=225_242 |
Description | Biomarkers for exposure to protein-rich foods |
Organisation | Abbott |
Country | United States |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Biomarkers for poultry, red meat and fish |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to patient population with various degrees of frailty |
Impact | We are part of an EIT-Health consortium FACET. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Fecal derivative of wholegrain diet |
Organisation | University of Bologna |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Trained a visiting Ph.D student (Miss Danielle Taneyo - 4 months) in metabolomics technology to discover dietary biomarkers |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided samples from a wholegrain dietary intervention |
Impact | Ph. D thesis |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Fruit and Vegetable consumption level biomarker discovery |
Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
Department | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Used metabolomics methods to discover potential biomarkers of Total Fruit and Vegetable Exposure level in urine. My team helped to design the urine sampling method and experimental statistical design. Trained a visiting Post doc in metabolomics methods |
Collaborator Contribution | Undertook a Fruit and Vegetable dietary intervention as part of an MRC grant. Collected dietary exposure data and specifically timed urine samples. |
Impact | Potential biomarkers are currently under structural analysis. Collaboration is multidisciplinary linking Nutrition Research in Belfast with Metabolomics and Machine Learning in Aberystwyth |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Fruit and Vegetable consumption level biomarker discovery |
Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
Department | School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Used metabolomics methods to discover potential biomarkers of Total Fruit and Vegetable Exposure level in urine. My team helped to design the urine sampling method and experimental statistical design. Trained a visiting Post doc in metabolomics methods |
Collaborator Contribution | Undertook a Fruit and Vegetable dietary intervention as part of an MRC grant. Collected dietary exposure data and specifically timed urine samples. |
Impact | Potential biomarkers are currently under structural analysis. Collaboration is multidisciplinary linking Nutrition Research in Belfast with Metabolomics and Machine Learning in Aberystwyth |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Functional Foods validation pipeline |
Organisation | University of Lisbon |
Department | Department of Chemistry |
Country | Portugal |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Methodology to study the fate of plant extracts in humans |
Collaborator Contribution | Bioactive plant materials and chemical synthesis methodology |
Impact | Successful award of a Ph.D studentship from the KESS |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Population exposure to take-away meals |
Organisation | Liverpool John Moores University |
Department | Astrophysics Research Institute |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Design of study. Analysis of urine samples |
Collaborator Contribution | Developing the study cohort, urine sampling and diet records. Collection of health data. |
Impact | Support for project won from John Moore University scheme |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Standardised MRM tests for dietary exposure biomarker quantification |
Organisation | University of Barcelona |
Department | Faculty of Pharmacy |
Country | Spain |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Identified Meat and Fish biomarkers and quantification methods |
Collaborator Contribution | Identified Fruit and Veg Biomarkers and quantification methods |
Impact | We have joined a EIT-Health consortium (Cook 2 Health) which funds our collaboration |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Tyrosine metabolism in humans |
Organisation | Aberystwyth University |
Department | Sport and Exercise Science |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Developed methodology to measure tyrosine metabolism in human plasma and analysed samples in an intervention study |
Collaborator Contribution | Organised a Tyrosine supplementation cohort and measured exercise capacity in humans |
Impact | Two publications journal articles |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | UKB CMC - UCL collaboration |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | UK Biobank Cardiometabolic Consortium coordination and leadership |
Collaborator Contribution | Working with Prof Harry Hemingway and colleagues through the Consortium's CHD working group with a focus on exploring opportunities for large scale CVD research arising from linking electronic health records . |
Impact | collaboration in progress |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | Undernutrition monitoring in older people |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Department | Faculty of Medicine |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have worked in an NHIR pilot project STREAM to integrate spot urine and dried blood spot collection protocols to test the acceptibility and technical quality of the use of biofluides to monitor eating behaviour |
Collaborator Contribution | Partners have modifed clinical trial protocols, ethics and logistics to integrate biofluid sampling into protocol. Specifically STREAM has purchased urine collection kits and taken dried blood spot kits and develop procedures to interact with primary care centres to get GPs to recruit poitentially undernourished patients willing to collect samples and send back to analytical lab in Aberystwyth for future biomarker analysis |
Impact | UKRI grant applications currently in preparation |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | 6th JPI HDHL International Conference "Advances in nutrition and health research over the past 10 years and a glimpse into the future" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Review of developments in human nutrition research over the past 10 years and horizon scanning for new opportunities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.healthydietforhealthylife.eu/index.php/news-publications/conferences-events |
Description | Advancing Dietary Intake Assessment Virtual Forum - 14th and 21st January 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | MRC-funded workshop to explore new mehtods for assessing dieatary intake in nutrition studies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/nutrition-and-food-centre/dietary-intake-assessment/ |
Description | BBC 1 Wales Television interveiw |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Describing the science behind chemical analysis of urine to monitor diet Invitations to write articles for trade magazines in the Food and Drink sector |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | BBSRC Institutes Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Keynote/Invited Speaker |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | National Institutes of the Biosciences, 2013. 18-20th June 2013. Roslin Institute, Edinburgh. Title "Detecting the dietary component of the human 'exposome' " Over 150 people attended event including newpaper and other media representatives. Several UK researcher expressed interest in future collaboration , including the BBSRC Chief Executive. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Bioinformatics Awareness |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Made researchers aware of the impact of using Machine Learning and HPC technology to process and interrogate complex MS data Several Ph.D students and postdocs keen to learn how to use software. This increased the visibility of the Diet and Health group within the Institute and possibly enabling future discussions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MBBY28ICdAKZh3YdxhWS1fJ0XCI0hBn8poK7pfmB_-s/edit?pli=1 |
Description | British Geriactric Society meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Patients, carers and/or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Presentation to outline urine test to screen for protein intake in pre-frail individuals |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://online.bgs.org.uk/events/regions/walesspring16 |
Description | EIT Health "Dietary Impact on Healthy Aging Phenotype" Partnering Workshop, Cardiff |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Organised a workshop with support of Welsh Government Food and Drink to raise awareness of EIT-Health and get companies involved in translational projects. From this we attracted 2 EIT-Health consortia and a KESS studentship as well as stimulating further interest from Welsh Government in supporting our Institute research strategy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | EIT-Health Partnership meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Activity centred on developing research consortia for translation of research relevant to health sector. My input stimulated ideas relating to human phenotyping. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://eithealth.eu/innovation-by-design-8th-march-in-leuven/ |
Description | EIT-Health 2016 Summit in Barcolona |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Provided slides for two talks. Had the opportunity to present two posters and discuss translational projects with a large number of meeting participants. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://eit.europa.eu/interact/events/eit-health-summit |
Description | EIT-Health matchmaking meeting in Warsaw |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | The meeting aimed to provide structured discussion opportunities between Draper and European companies interested in urine biomarker technologies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://eithealth.eu/innovation-by-design-matchmaking-event-in-warsaw/ |
Description | Food Bioactives and Health Conference, Norwich, UK 13-15th September |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Oral Presentation: Dietary exposure biomarkers and metabolic profiling technology to support a standardised validation pipeline for functional foods Poster Presentation: Developing community-based urine sampling methods to facilitate dietary exposure biomarker technology for population assessment. Poster Presentation: Quantification of dietary biomarkers in spot urine samples reflects the intake of foods of UK high public health importance |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.ifr.ac.uk/news/latest-news/2016/06/food-bioactives-and-health-conference-september-2016/ |
Description | Food Standards Agency - Horizon Scanning |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Food Standards Agency very interested in food analysis methodology Second Higher level meeting now requested for later in year |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Frailty workshop in Madrid |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Outreach meeting to inform stakeholders supporting frail individuals about use of urine biomarkers to monitor nutritional status |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Human Nutrition Research visit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to HNR staff and Epidemiology Groups in Cambridge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | InnoLife Summit - Erlangen |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | John Draper was asked to act as one of the Innovation Co-coordinators for the InnoLIFE consortium, representing 6 EU countries. The summit aimed to develop thematic areas for future collaborative work in EU between Industry, Academics, Health Care Organisations and Government Departments |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | International Sport and Exercise Nutrition Conference 2018, Newcastle University. 'How healthy is your diet? Objective measurements using metabolomics' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | More than 200 participants attended the lecture. This led to discussion with several research groups afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | JPI-HDHL: Biomarkers for Nutrition and Health Agenda for Final Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Review of several projects investigating the development and use of nutrition-related biomarkers in studies of diet and health. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | LabTube Video mage at 2015 Metabomeeting in Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Invited to make a video describing my research presented as a Keynote speaker at the 2015 Metabomeeting in Cambridge. This is web accessible on LabTube |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.labtube.tv/video/labtube-meets-john-draper-aberystwyth-university |
Description | MRC UK Nutrition Research Partnership for health and disease (UK NRP) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Joined a working group to develop a future strategy for nutrition research in UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | NIH Workshop on Biomarkers of Dietary Intake and Exposure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Workshop to evaluate bio-marker technology for future monitoring of eating behaviour in USA study populations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.niddk.nih.gov/news/meetings-workshops/2018/workshop-biomarkers-dietary-intake-exposure |
Description | NuGOweek 2017, Varna. August 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussion of future strategis for research in the area of nutritional genomics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.nugo.org/nugo-week/nugoweek-2017/ |
Description | NugoWeek 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | AJ Lloyd made an oral presentation in the Applied Omics in the field of Nutrigenomics session at NuGOweek 2014. Talk was well received and stimulated discussion in relation to sampling humans in epidemiological context JD invited to collaborate with Portuguese National Dietary study in |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.nugo.org/everyone/42673/5/0/30 |
Description | Nutrition Society Meeting in Dublin |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | My team provided slides derived from the MRC Programme Grant to 2 plenary speakers (Prof. John Mathers and Prof. Jayne Woodside) and also presented 2 posters on our work |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Nutritional Metabolomics Workshop, Glasgow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | Workshop Facilitator |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Workshop Title: "The food metabolome and biomarkers for dietary exposure" 4-5th July 2012, Glasgow. Draper made a short presentation to set the scene and acted as acted and Facilitator and Rapporter for the session "Tools and resources for metabolite identification". Around 65 experts in epidemiology and nutritional metabolomics attended the workshop with sparked lengthy discussion on the use of bio markers to monitor dietary exposure. The workshop Facilitators were invited to write up the proceedings and conclusions of the meeting in the form of a substantial review/position paper for the top ranked journal in the area of nutrition (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.nugo.org/everyone/42461/7/0/30 |
Description | OSCHR reveiw of Nutrition Research (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited participant in a meeting organised by NHOR and MRC to review the status of nutrition research in the UK. I provided slides for one of the panel members (John Mathers) and was able to ask a range of questions after different presentations and sparked discussion of the use of urine biomarkers to assess diet. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Presentation to BRC Nutrition in Southampton |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on biomarker technology in nutrition research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Presentations on Diet and Health research at national meetings of EIT-Health (Spain, UK, France, Belgium, Germany) in 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | John Draper presented on a theme of Diet and Health research translation opportunities to national meetings of organisation that eventually came together to form EIT-Health in 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Radio Wales Interview BBC in August 2012 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Radio Interview for BBC Radio Wales describing the concept of urine testing to monitor recent diet BBC Television asked for an interveiw |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Royal Society of Chemistry Meeting: Advances in the Chemical Analysis of Food, Burlington House, London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Oral Presentation: De novo compositional analysis of meal components: using LC-MS/MS to link food components with urinary metabolites and human health in nutritional epidemiology studies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Thermo Scientific LCMS Annual User Meeting, Welcome Centre, London UK, June 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Invited Oral Presentation: High Resolution LC-MS in Nutritional Metabolomics, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | UKNRP Advancing Dietary Intake Assessment Virtual Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Overview of the role of diet in influencing health outcomes and the challenge in measuring dietary behaviour. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/nutrition-and-food-centre/dietary-intake-assessment/ |
Description | Urine Biomarker technology presented at the Medi-Wales annual meeting in Cardiff |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presented talk on likely outputs of MRC project that could be commercialised in the future to develop point of care diagnostics. Lot of industy interest and several companies followed up afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Urinomics 2013 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference Title: 1st International Conference on Urine Omics. 9-11 September, 2013. Talk title: " Urine sampling in human populations and discovery of dietary exposure biomarkers". Presentation sparked more then 15 mins of discussion on urine biomarker technology. Draper asked to co-organise a session in Urinomics 2014 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.urinomics2013.com/ |
Description | Urinomics 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Made 2 presentations on dietary exposure biomarkers and method for urine sampling in community settings. There was considerable interest in the latter from teams involved in kidney disease research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Wales Kidney Research Unit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting in Bangor to discuss urine biomarker technology and application sin kidney research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Welcome Trust/WHO Disruptive Nutrition Research Working Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Joined a core group to develop an international workshop to promote research in nutrition |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |