ADM Announces Personalized Nutrition Collaboration with Mayo Clinic
September 14 2017 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
- Collaboration with Mayo Clinic’s Center
for Individualized Medicine will investigate novel microbial
solutions for improving health, including body weight
Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) today announced a
collaboration with Mayo Clinic in personalized nutrition. The
company will work with Mayo’s Microbiome Program, led by Dr. Heidi
Nelson, to investigate microbial solutions to improve health and
wellness, initially focusing on the maintenance of healthy body
weight.
“We are pleased to enter into this cutting-edge collaboration
with Mayo Clinic to study the association of specific probiotics,
prebiotics, and other nutrients with body weight,” said Vikram
Luthar, ADM’s president, Bioactives. “Personalized nutrition is an
important growth platform for ADM. Earlier this year, we acquired
Biopolis, a leading player in health-promoting microbial
technology. Now, by working with Mayo Clinic, we are further
expanding our capabilities to develop personalized nutrition
solutions to improve health and wellness, and bring these
beneficial solutions directly to consumers.”
The goal of the collaboration is to develop a personalized
nutrition model that predicts the effects of probiotics, prebiotics
and other metabolites, as well as other nutrients in microbiome
shifts, for improving individual health. In the initial phase, ADM
and Mayo Clinic will work to design a computational method for
testing probiotics, metabolites, and other intervention strategies
that promote the growth of gut microbes linked to healthy body
weight. Additional projects are planned to leverage both
organizations’ strengths. Mayo Clinic will provide data analysis,
modeling and gut microbiome expertise. ADM will bring expertise in
food ingredients, strain development and genomics, as well as
commercialization capabilities.
About ADM
For more than a century, the people of Archer Daniels Midland
Company (NYSE: ADM) have transformed crops into products that serve
the vital needs of a growing world. Today, we’re one of the world’s
largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, with
approximately 32,000 employees serving customers in more than 160
countries. With a global value chain that includes approximately
500 crop procurement locations, 250 ingredient manufacturing
facilities, 38 innovation centers and the world’s premier crop
transportation network, we connect the harvest to the home, making
products for food, animal feed, industrial and energy uses. Learn
more at www.adm.com.
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