22nd to 23rd September 2017, Boston, MA, USA.
The Functional Food Center (FFC) is pleased to announce its 22nd International Conference “Functional and Medical Foods for Chronic Diseases: Bioactive Compounds and Biomarkers”. The conference will be held in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School in Boston on September 22-23, 2017.
This conference will bring together experts in medicine, biology, and the food industry to discuss the functional foods with bioactive compounds as dietary interventions for chronic diseases.
The main topics/ sessions of the conference are:
- Functional Food definition and the status of Functional Foods in Japan, US and other countries
- Functional Foods and Obesity
- Functional Foods and Diabetes
- Functional Foods and Neurological Diseases
- Functional Foods and Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD)
- Functional Foods and Cancer
- Functional Foods with bioactive compound(s): Prevention and management of non-communicable diseases
- Safety of the bioactive compounds and Functional Foods
- Biomarkers and Functional Food
- Special Session: Functional Food, Microbiome and Cancer
- Special Session: Dietary exosomes and their cargos
- Special session: Engineering bioaccessibility and bioavailability of bioactive compounds
- Current research and development of new Functional Food Products
Date: 22nd to 23rd September 2017
Location:
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115
USA
Registration: For information on registration and fees please click here.
Program: Find the preliminary program here.
Contact: ffc@functionalfoodcenter.com
Find more information on the congress here.
Published in GI-Mail 07/2017 (English edition). Sign up for GI-Mail here. 
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