The Nutrition, Healthcare, Longevity Cluster
the Crossroads of Nutrition, Biotechnology and Health
The Nutrition, Healthcare, Longevity Cluster was approved by the government on 12 July 2005.
Its aim is to bring together actors in the agrifood sectors, biotech companies and research and academic institutions from the Nord-Pas de Calais Region to focus on innovative collaboration projects that generate jobs linked to nutrition and health.
Since its creation, 105 R&D projects have been approved, totalling 230 million euros in investment. 25 to 30 projects would be approved each year.
The main themes concern the creation and development of innovative processes and products in the following fields :
Prevention, via nutritionand the treatment of metabolic, cardiovascular and related diseasesPrevention and the treatment of diseases linked to ageing.
Some Examples
Formulation and development of functional foods and ingredientsImproved food product quality through industrial processing (quality of their nutritional composition, avoiding the occurrence of allergens, etc.)Identifying, then validating new biological targets, selecting molecules likely to act on such targets and offering preventive and therapeutic action, assessing their effectiveness, their mechanisms of action and their toxicity, their impact on the population (epidemiology and clinical research),Mastering their synthesis and integration in a food, ingredient or drug.Developing and improving suitable preventive practices.
Some of the actors involved
The unique motivation of leaders in the agrifood industry in Europe and worldwide : Lesaffre, Roquette, Finaler, Bonduelle, Mc Cain, Groupe Soufflet, etc.
A major investment on the part of healthcare and biotech companies : Bifinove, Cardialpha, Cellial Technologies, CECMA, Heart and Arteries Foundation, Genfit, Genoscreen, Macopharma, Orgamétrie, Tereo, etc.
> See all the Cluster’s actors
The markets concerned are
food products health foods (functional ingredients, dietetic products, food supplements) the pharmaceutical biotechnology medical industries (devices, software, clinical trials, etc.).
Media
Press kit
General presentation of the Nutrition Health Longevity cluster
Presentation of the actors, stakes and thematic fields of the cluster
See also
Key Figures
The Cluster’s companies :
> + 130,000 jobs worldwide
> + 10,000 jobs in the Region
> More than 1,000 researchers of which 650 working on the Cluster’s themes
The Nord-Pas de Calais Region, the second largest academy in France :
> 155,000 students (including 15,000 in the Life Sciences and Health)
> 7 Universities and 23 Schools of Engineering
> 1,800 researchers in Biohealth including 500 active in the Cluster’s major areas of specialisation (Nutrition Healthcare and Longevity).
Your contact
Pôle Nutrition Santé Longévité
contact@pole-nsl.org
Parc Eurasanté – 310 Avenue Eugène Avinée – 59120 Loos
Tel : 03 28 55 90 60
Fax : 03 28 55 90 61
Further Info
The Nutrition, Healthcare, Longevity Cluster
www.pole-nsl.org
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