The Dynamic Gastric Model, developed from years of research at the Institute of Food Research, has taken significant steps towards improving its commercial use by food and drug companies worldwide. IFR and the technology management company Plant Bioscience Limited (PBL) have secured funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) to further develop [...]

Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship
Cristina Fernandez has joined IFR on a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship to investigate how adapting foods to control fat digestion could reduce obesity and chronic diet-related disease. Obesity, and related health problems, account for 5% of the EU’s healthcare budget and this figure is rising. Campaigns to promote healthier lifestyles and better diets are a [...]

Professorship for IFR scientist
Peter Wilde’s 25 years at IFR have been rewarded with a Professorship from the University of East Anglia School of Pharmacy. Peter joined the Process Physics Department at IFR in 1985, following a degree in Biophysics at UEA. His main research interests have focussed on the properties of the molecular interfaces in food components. The [...]

New project will test novel mechanisms to control satiety
A new research project at the Institute of Food Research, which is strategically funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), is to test in humans novel ways of trying to reduce appetite, as part of a strategy to combat the problems caused by obesity in the UK. Obesity, and associated conditions such [...]
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Mining the botulinum genome
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Benchtop NMR breakthrough
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The First UK-Ireland Food Business Innovation Summit
25 April, 2013
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Contact killing of Salmonella Typhimurium by human faecal bacteria
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IFR scientists use the force to decode secrets of our gut
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Contact killing of Salmonella Typhimurium by human faecal bacteria
23 April, 2013
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Commercial future for Model Gut
27 February, 2013
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Poultry probiotic cuts its coat to beat bad bacteria
27 March, 2013
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Reliably higher levels of healthy compound in Beneforté broccoli
10 April, 2013
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