Better Foods for Better Health

Better Foods for Better Health
4th Edition
Organized by Fondation Mérieux
Fondation Mérieux Conference Center “Les Pensières”
Veyrier du Lac - France
September 18th to 20th, 2013
Supported by
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Background
The 4th “Better Foods for Better Health” symposium organized by the Fondation Mérieux with
the support of Mérieux NutriSciences, gathers global experts from academia, international
organizations, NGOs, regulatory authorities and industry.
How can we meet the essential dietary needs of 9 billion inhabitants worldwide in 2050?
How do we prevent the steadily increasing incidence of health risks and illnesses?
What are the key triggers for the efficacy/costs ratio in advanced prevention?
What novel nutritional approaches can be implemented in advanced prevention?
How can we use modern techniques and technologies to foster innovative nutrition?
This Symposium is about moving forward with new solutions, addressing nutritional strategies for
prevention and economic impact in developed and developing communities.
It is designed to support the need for a broader regulatory framework at both a global and regional
level in order to foster and anticipate innovation for responsible and effective nutrition.
Its originality and strength lies in bringing together stakeholders from the worlds of research,
regulatory bodies and industry, allowing us to:
 Contribute to advanced nutrition at the leading edge of prevention
 Promote “responsible” nutrition, with worldwide solidarity and community impact
 Create conditions for open and constructive three-way discussions between these
different groups
Via interactive presentations between the audience and experts in their field, this symposium aims
to:
 Provide “state of the art” information about nutritional Health Economics and
Prevention
 Offer an opportunity to learn from the interplay between diseases and nutrition in
scientific cases
 Evaluate the opportunities of novel scientific models
 Recommend initiatives to increase awareness and mobilize stakeholders
We wish you a stimulating, enriching and enjoyable “Better Food for Better Health” symposium!
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The Foundation is committed to fighting against infectious diseases in developing and emerging
countries, with nutrition and food safety being an essential component of achieving this mission
Established in 1967, we are currently active in Mali, Madagascar, Haiti, Cambodia, Laos, China,
Lebanon, Tajikistan and several other countries, improving clinical biology capabilities and other
key supporting activities.
Fondation Merieux has a long history of community-based mobilization. In each country,
comprehensive actions are implemented, including the renovation of medical analysis
laboratories in regional hospitals, biological training, applied research, support to women and
children affected by illness and knowledge-sharing activities.
The fight against infectious diseases in developing countries can only be effective as part of a
wider healthcare strategy, extending well beyond clinical biology issues, and including water
and nutrition-based approaches.
Faced with increasingly complex public health problems due to a deteriorating environment,
intense poverty and inadequate education, a multi-pronged approach is essential, combining
expertise in human and veterinary medicine, gut flora species, and their role in nutrition, water,
food and environment quality and other areas.
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September 18, 2013
5:30-6:00 pm
Registration
6:00-6:15 pm
Welcome Address
Alain Mérieux
6:15-7:00 pm
Keynote Lectures:
Connecting Nutrition Science and Policy
Barbara Schneeman
7:00 pm
Welcome Dinner
September 19, 2013
SESSION I
8:15am – 1:00pm
NEW MODELS OF EFFECTIVE PREVENTION FOR ADVANCED
NUTRITION
 Chair by: Martine Laville
8:15-8:35 am
Rethinking why obesity develops and why it is harmful
Thorkild I. Sorensen
8:35-8:55 am
New Advanced Molecular Nutrition
Serge Rezzi
8:55-9:15 am
Food as hormones
Philippe Froguel
9:15-9:35 am
Achieving healthy growth beyond anthropometry
Sindura Ganapathi
9:35-9:55 am
Reducing abdominal adiposity and increasing
cardiorespiratory fitness by improving nutritional quality,
targeting sedentary behaviors and promoting physical
activity
Jean-Pierre Despres
9:55-10:15 am
Panel Discussion
10:15-10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45-11:05 am
Population-based prevention in nutrition: The need for
an ecological approach
Chantal Simon
11:05-11:25 am
Direct and Indirect Modification of the Human
Microbiome by Probiotics
Greg Gloor
11:25-11:45 am
Social perspective of current Food and Nutrition issues
Michael Heasman
11:45-12:05 pm
Advanced Data modeling for Biomarkers in Nutrition
Mohammad Afshar
12:05-12:25 pm
The advent of predictive, preventive, personalized and
participatory systems (P4) medicine: implications for
nutrition and public health.
Charles Auffray
12:25-12:45 pm
Panel Discussion
12:45-12:55 pm
12:55-2:15 pm
Industry point of view
Pierre Philippe Sagnier
Lunch
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SESSION II
HEALTH ECONOMICS - IMPACT OF PREVENTION
2:15pm – 6:10pm
Chair by: Michel Gardet
2:15-2:35 pm
EFSA’s role in nutrition
Hubert Deluyker
2:35-2:55 pm
The need for transdisciplinary, systems thinking and
capacity building to solve "wicked" problems in nutrition
Mindy Kurzer
2:55-3:15 pm
Addressing nutrition economics & social aspects in the
developing world
Steve Godfrey
3:15-3:35 pm
Nutraceuticals – Food for thought or the next step in
patient treatment’?
Marcus Deans
3:35-3:55 pm
Panel Discussion
3:55-4:25 pm
Coffee Break
4:25-4:45 pm
On the Economics of Food Demand and Nutrition
Pierre Dubois
4:45-5:05 pm
INRA view on nutrition health economics
Bernard Ruffieux
5:05-5:25 pm
Return on investments of early intervention in the
DOHaD context: The economic rationale for investing
early in life.
Claudine Junien
5:25-6:00 pm
Panel Discussion
6:00-6:10 pm
Industry point of view
SESSION III
TBC
INNOVATIVE INITIATIVES FOR ADVANCED NUTRITION
6:10pm – 7:00 pm
POSTERS SESSION & NETWORKING
7:30 pm
IMODI
Olivier Duchamp
Micro and nano technologies for better food and better
health
Thibault Honegger
Gut Microbiota analytical platform - Biofortis
Thomas Carton
BASF
Andreas Bluethner
ACQUA – Fondation Mérieux
Florence Pradel
 Dinner
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September 20, 2013
COMMUNITY BASED NUTRITION APPROACHES & DISRUPTIVE
SESSION IV
NUTRITION
8:15 am – 2:50 pm
 Chair by: Mark Miller
8:15-8:35 am
ELFE, the french national birth cohort as a source of
nutritional information on pregnant women and infant
Marie Aline Charles
8:35-8:55 am
Metabolic risks in Chinese pregnant women: Better health
needs better practice
Weili Yan
8:55-9:15 am
Epode, a multi stakeholder approach to prevent childhood
obesity at large scale
Jean Michel Borys
9:15-9:35 am
Community Management of Acute Malnutrition
Jean William Pape
9:35-9:55 am
Panel Discussion
9:55-10:25 am
Coffee Break
10:25-10:45 am
Testing Probiotics for Diarrhea: The road to new
standards
Antoine Hadengue
10:45-11:05 am
Standardization of fecal microbiota transplantation in
clinical practice
Alexander Khoruts
11:05-11:25 am
Prevention of Clostridium difficile infection using a nontoxigenic strain of C. difficile
Dale Gerding
11:25-11:45 am
Intestinal microbiota and xenobiotics: best friends or
worst enemies?
11:45-12:05 pm
Panel Discussion
12:05-12:25 pm
Industry point of view
12:25-2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00-2:15 pm
Sebastien Matamoros
Manfred Eggersdorfer
Impact of mobile apps on the nutrition industry
Ralf-Gordon Jahns
2:15-2:30 pm
Digital Health , a new model for Prevention & Nutrition
Peter Ohnemus
2:30-2:45 pm
Conclusions and Recommendations – Actions to Move
Forward
Christian Brechot
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SPEAKERS & CHAIRS
Charles Auffray
Founding Director
European Institute for Systems Biology & Medicine
France
Mohamamd Afshar
Chairman & CEO
Ariana Pharmaceuticals
France
Jean-Michel Borys, MD
EPODE European Network Director
EPODE International Network
Paris, France
Dr. Andreas Bluethner
Leader of BASF’s Food-Fortifiction Initiative
BASF
Germany
Christian Brechot
Medical & Scientific Affaires
Institut Mérieux
France
Thomas Carton, PhD
R&D Manager, Biofortis Research
Biofortis SAS
France
Marie Aline Charles
Director of Research
INSERM
France
Marcus Deans
Vice President Global Market Access
Voisin Consulting Life Sciences
UK
Hubert Deluyker
Scientific Adviser to the Executive Director
European Food Safety Authority
Italy
Jean-Pierre Despres
Director of research in cardiology
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et
de pneumologie de Québec
Québec, Canada
Pierre Dubois
Professor of Economics
Toulouse School of Economics
France
Olivier Duchamp
Director Scientific Partnerships &
Technology Transfer
Oncodesign
France
Manfred Eggersdorfer
SVP Nutrition Science & Advocacy
DSM Nutritional Products
Switzerland
Philippe Froguel, MD, Ph D
Professor of Genomic Medicine,
Head of Department of Genomics of Common
Disease,
School Of Public Health,
Hammersmith Hospital,
Imperial College,
London
Sindura Ganapathi
Program Officer
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
USA
Michel Gardet
Global Business Head HealthCare Nutrition
Nestle Health Science
France
Dale Gerding
Professor of Medicine
Loyola University
Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
USA
Gregory Gloor
Professor of Biochemistry
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry,
The University of Western Ontario
Canada
Steve Godfrey
Director, Investment, Partnerships & Advocacy
GAIN - Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Switzerland
Antoine Hadengue
Professeur honoraire,
University of Geneva,and
Foundation for Liver and Gut Studies (FLAGS)
Switzerland
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Michael Heasman
Senior Lecturer in Food Policy
Harper Adams University
United Kingdom
Thibault Honegger, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
USA
Claudine Junien
Professor
BDR-INRA
Paris, France
Ralf-Gordon Jahns
Managing Director
Research2guidance
Germany
Alexander Khoruts, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Division of Gastroenterology
University of Minnesota;
Center for Immunology
USA
Mindy S. Kurzer, Ph.D.
Dept. of Food Science and Nutrition
University of Minnesota
USA
Martine Laville, MD PhD,
CENS (Center European Nutrition'health)
CRNHRA, Lyon1 University, INSERM U 1060
Hospices civils de Lyon
France
Sebastien Matamoros, PhD
Post-doctorate
Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium
Mark Miller
Chief Medical Officer
bioMérieux, France
Peter Ohnemus
President & CEO
Dacadoo ag
Switzerland
Jean William Pape
Professor of Medicine, Center for Global Health,
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of
Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College,
USA
Director, Les Centres GHESKIO, Haïti.
Florence Pradel
Fondation Mérieux
France
Serge Rezzi
Professeur
Nestle Institute of Health Sciences
Switzerland
Bernard Ruffieux
Professor in Economics
Grenoble INP (Grenoble Institute of Technology)
and GAEL-INRA
(The French National Institute for Agricultural Research)
France
Pierre Philippe Sagnier
Nestle Health Sciences
Switzerland
Chantal Simon
Professor
Institution CARMEN INSERM,
University of Lyon, CENS
France
Barbara Schneeman, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
University of California, Davis
Former Director of the Office of Nutrition,
Labeling,
and Dietary Supplements
Food and Drug Administration
USA
Thorkild I.A. Sorensen
Professor of clinical and metabolic epidemiology
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
Weili Yan
Director, Professor
Dept Clinical Epidemiology
Children's Hospital of Fudan University
China
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Steering Committee
Jean Francois Billet
Senior Vice President
Corporate Development
Mérieux NutriSciences
Christian Brechot
Medical & Scientific Affaires
Institut Mérieux
France
Deborah Braun
biomérieux
Program Manager Oncology bioMarkers
Institut Mérieux
Michel du Peloux
Senior Vice President
Merieux Nutrisciences
France
Alexandre Mérieux
Vice President
Institut Mérieux
Benoît Miribel
Director General
Fondation Mérieux
Valentina Picot
Scientific & Research Advisor
Fondation Mérieux
Philippe Sans
President and CEO
Mérieux NutriSciences
Pamela Vennin
Vice President Corporate Communications
Mérieux NutriSciences
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