nutrihealth
The NutriHealth Group investigates the mechanisms by which nutrition influences health.
activities
The NutriHealth Group activities include scrutinising nutritional exposure through food patterns and (non-) nutrient characterisation, and modelling the diet-disease relationship, with a particular focus on metabolic and health related conditions.
More specifically, the group seeks to provide the research, medical and general population communities with easy-to-use (bio-)markers to assess emerging risk factors of morbidities, such as oxidative stress, antioxidant status, inflammation, and body composition disturbances. This is achieved via in vitro/cellular modelling and human observational and intervention studies, exploring a variety of markers ranging from questionnaires/indices and individual compounds to -omics based tools, also studying factors resulting in inter-individual differences to dietary exposure, such as genetic background and microbiome.
The NutriHealth goal is to expand our expertise to better understand the relationship between (non-) nutrients, dietary patterns and chronic and age-related health issues such as cardiometabolic diseases, cancer, frailty and cognitive aspects, and to contribute to improve the control and prevention of diseases via translational research.
Watch – 📺 Diet and nutrition in the context of Precision Public Health
Partners
Projects & clinical trials
Some of the group’s research projects include:
- I2TRON – a translational research project exploring mechanisms link dietary fiber, markers of inflammation related to disease and the gut microbiota
- SUSTEATABLE – To assess the sustainability of the Luxembourgish food system
- Obesity & cardiometabolic issues in adult residents in Luxembourg (2007 – 2017)
- Dietary patterns in Luxembourg and relation to cardiometabolic diseases
- METHOOD – Investigating the relationships between the socio-economic and physical environmental characteristics of residential neighborhoods, behavioral CM risk factors with a focus on dietary habits and physical activity, and the metabolic syndrome.
- CAROFIBER – Revealing the influence of dietary fiber on the bioavailability of carotenoids, as well as studying Interactions of gut microbiota and carotenoids – UPCOMING
Featured team members
Bohn Group Leader
Cifuentes PhD Student
Hejazi PhD Student
Leners Laboratory Technician
Samouda Scientist
Shukla PhD Student
Özgüven Research Engineer
Scientific publications
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بهکارگیری شاخص رژیم غذایی غربیشده در پایش تغذیهای ابزاری برای شناسایی گذار غذایی ناسالم و خطر متابولیک در ایران – 01/12/2026
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Safety of Acheta domesticus (house cricket) spray-dried powder as a Novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 – 25/09/2026
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Safety of cannabidiol isolated from Cannabis sativa L. as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283. – 21/09/2026
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Does the Nutri-Score 2023 algorithm provide consistent classification across European food supplies? – 15/09/2026
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Dietary carotenoids and vitamin A are associated with lower gastric cancer risk and favorable inflammatory and oxidative stress biomarkers – 07/09/2026
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Safety of S-acetyl glutathione as an novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 – 01/09/2026
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Introducing OBEClust – 01/01/2026
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High Methoxyl Pectin Consistently Reduces β-Carotene Bioaccessibility Across Various Gastrointestinal Digestion Conditions – 05/08/2026
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Safety of Anaerobutyricum soehngenii CH106 as a novel food pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 – 28/07/2026
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Established and Emerging Biomarkers to Characterize Persons at Risk for Obesity—Paving the Way for Targeted Clinical Intervention Trials—A Comprehensive Position Paper – 27/07/2026
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Job vacancies
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Master’s student in Dietetics, Nutrition/Public Health (TBALL)
Department of Precision Health – Nutrition & Health Research Group