Project cooperationUpdated on 26 January 2026
Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases via nutrition & Phyisical activity
Executive Director - Center for Food Challenges at EPFL - Center for Food Challenges
Lausanne, Switzerland
About
We are looking for partners with competences to run clinical trials, behavior scientists, and nutritionists, who wants to work in the prevention space. We offer competences in sensing technologies, data sciences, AI, and lipid metabolism.
Cardiovascular disease, have become the dominant health challenge of our time. Physical activity and nutrition are widely accepted as crucial determinants, yet we are failing to translate this knowledge into healthier populations.
Through 50 expert interviews spanning pharma executives, venture capitalists, healthcare professionals, public health authorities, WHO representatives, and researchers, we have identified three binding constraints—each requiring a different type of solution:
- Lack of health awareness. This is an integration gap/ engineering challenge. Most people don't know their health status until disease has progressed. The scientific foundations for affordable continuous monitoring exist—aptamers, microfluidics, low-power electronics—but no one has integrated them into devices deployable affordably at scale.
- Rudimentary understanding of the impact of nutrition pathways that increase (or decrease) NCDs risk. This is a science gap. We lack the fundamental understanding of how nutrition can affect lipid metabolism, whose dysfunction triggers cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and neurodegeneration, and how nutrition could restore metabolic health. Without this, personalized dietary guidance remains guesswork.
Limited accessibility to behaviour-change support (e.g. nutritionist, kinesiologist, etc). **This is delivery/integration gap.**Today this type of support is the priviledge of a few who can afford longevity clinics and staff of healthcare professional to support them in healthy aging.The tools to make it affordable and accessible to every citizen exists—conversational AI, wearables, digital nutrition tracking—but they need to be combined and conveyed.
more on the specific of how we plan to tackle each challenge to be discussed with the interested partners!
Stage
- Early stage
Topic
- HORIZON-CL6-2026-02-FARM2FORK-09
Type
- Partner looking for consortium
- Coordinator looking for partners
Organisation
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Rozarta Nezaj
Scientific Researcher and Lecturer at "Food Research Centre" Faculty of Biotechnology and Food - AUT at Agricultural University of Tirana
Tirana, Albania
Project cooperation
- HORIZON-CL6-2026-02-FARM2FORK-09
Paris Badat
Global Lead, Development Operations at ProVeg
Berlin, Germany