Building New Nutrigenomics Technology Interface Tools for Consumer and Health Professional Markets

营养基因组学，研究营养对基因组的影响，是一个新兴的领域，在优化健康和预防疾病方面具有巨大的潜力。由于基因组学、表观基因组学和转录组学的技术进步，该领域正在迅速发展。加拿大营养基因组学行业落后于美国和欧洲市场，这意味着随着消费者和医疗保健专业人员对在加拿大使用这种新技术的有效接口工具的需求不断增加，这意味着有巨大的增长潜力。dnaPower是一家独特的新兴营养基因组学公司，总部位于不列颠哥伦比亚省的低陆平原，希望利用这一市场缺口，将这项技术提供给消费者和商业市场。他们寻求成为加拿大乃至世界的行业领导者。昆特兰理工大学（KPU）将与dnaPower合作，严格检查该公司现有产品的有效性，以生成改进的用户界面工具。该公司将立即利用这一结果来改进和多样化他们的产品，既针对消费者市场，也针对他们的新重点——健康专业商业市场。这个项目将帮助他们在这个快速发展的领域竞争并获得市场优势。KPU将受益于与一家处于重要的新卫生领域前沿的公司建立新的伙伴关系。KPU的学生和教师将有难得的机会参与并进一步推进快速发展的营养基因组学领域。

Nutrigenomics, the study of nutritional influences on the genome, is an emerging field with tremendous potential to optimize health and prevent disease. The field is quickly advancing due to technological progress in genomics, epigenomics and transcriptomics. The Canadian nutrigenomics industry lags behind US and European markets, which means there is tremendous potential for growth as consumer and health care professional demand is increasing for effective interface tools to use this new technology in Canada. dnaPower, a unique and emerging nutrigenomics company based in British Columbia's lower mainland, wishes to capitalize on this market gap in delivering this technology to consumer and business markets. They seek to be an industry leader in Canada and beyond. Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) will partner with dnaPower to rigorously examine the effectiveness of the company's existing products to generate improved user interface tools. The company will use the results immediately to improve and diversify their products both for the consumer market and their new focus, the health professional business market. This project will help them compete and gain market advantage in this rapidly moving field. KPU will benefit from building a new partnership with a company that is at the forefront of an important new health field. KPU students and faculty will have the rare opportunity to engage in and further advance the rapidly emerging field of nutrigenomics.