Sysdiet  

SYSDIET, Systems biology in controlled dietary interventions and cohort studies,
is one of the three projects in the Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE)
Programme on Food, Nutrition and Health,  launched by  NordForsk  in 2007. 
SYSDIET gathers 12 research groups from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway
and Sweden in a coordinated effort to exploiting nutritional systems biology tools
in human dietary interventions, animal and cell culture studies. 

SYSDIET aims to find out novel mechanisms by which Nordic foods and diets
could be modified to promote health and prevent metabolic syndrome and
related diseases.

SYSDIET is organised in four working groups. In addition to the joint research
program SYSDIET offers training courses and scientific workshops to enhance
the use of systems biology tools in food and nutritional research. A core joint
research activity is a multicentre intervention investigating the effects of ahealthy
Nordic diet in subjects with features of metabolic syndrome, using modern
systems biology tools to identify diet-induced changes in physiology.
 

NEWS:   

The practical, sample-collecting phase of SYSDIET-intervention (NCT00992641)
has been finalized in November 2010. It was carried out in six centers for 24
weeks and the total number of subjects was 167. We are now facing systems
biology and data analyses.    

PhD studentship: Metabolomics in food and nutrition research.