Acronym
LipiDiDiet
Full Title
Therapeutic and preventive impact of nutritional lipids on neuronal and cognitive performance in aging, Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia
Programme
FP7-COOPERATION-KBBE (Large Collaborative Project)
Contract Number
FP7- 211696
Abstract
The European LipiDiDiet project addresses the Impact of Nutritional Lipids on Neuronal and Cognitive Performance in Aging, Alzheimer’s disease and Vascular dementia. This is based on previous observations that lipids change the risk for dementia. Especially some omega-3 lipids appear to lower the Alzheimer risk. It is our major aim to complement the currently existing medical therapy of Alzheimer’s disease with nutrition, especially at the very first stages of Alzheimer’s disease. But we do not stop at Alzheimer’s, we also develop dietary products that maintain and support the normal cognitive function in healthy aging in general and help reduce cerebrovascular risks. In addition to dietary products we also develop diet and life-style based health care advice for the elderly. The project is based on two elements; one is applied research documenting the value of nutritional support in persons at risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease. The other element is basic research generating more knowledge about the possible therapeutic and preventive effects of dietary lipids in model systems of Alzheimer’s disease and Vascular dementia.
Duration
60 months (01/08/2008 – 31/07/2013)
Project Funding
5,899,843.00 €
Coordinator
Saarland University
Prof. Dr. Tobias Hartmann
Phone: +49 68 41 16 24130
Email
Partners
Saarland University, Germany
Department of Neurodegeneration and Neurobiology
Deutsches Institut für Demenzprävention (Prof. Dr. Tobias Hartmann)
Department of Neurology (Prof. Dr. Klaus Fasbender)
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Prof. Dr. Matthias Riemenschneider)
University of Eastern Finland
Department of Neurobiolology (Prof. Heikki Tanila)
Department of Neurology (Prof. Hilkka Soininen)
University of Szeged, Hungary
Department of Medical Chemistry (Prof. Botond Penke)
Tel Aviv University, Israel
The Faculty of Life sciences (Prof. Daniel M. Michaelson)
Stichting Katholieke Universiteit - Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, The Netherlands
Faculty of Medicine, Donders Centre for Neuroscience
Department of Anatomy and Department of Cognitive Neuroscience (Prof. Amanda J Kiliaan)
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology
Section for Psychiatry and Neurochemistry
Unit of Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology (Prof. Ingmar Skoog)
Section for Neuroscience and Psychiatry (Prof. Deborah Gustafson, Prof. Kaj Blennow)
Danone Research, The Netherlands
Nutricia Advanced Medical Nutrition (Dr. Ladislaus Maria Broersen)
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society
Division of clinical geriatrics (Prof. Lars-Olof Wahlund, Dr. Miia Kivipelto, Dr. Yvonne Freund-Levi)
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - Institute of Physiology
Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i.
Department of Neurochemistry (Dr. Vladimír Doležal)
VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Department of Neurology and Alzheimer Center (Prof. Philip Scheltens)
University of Bonn, Germany
Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Pharmacology (Prof. Dieter Luetjohann)
European Research and Project Office GmbH, Germany (Claudia Giehl)
Scientific Institute for Public Health, Belgium (Dr. Kris Huygen)
University Hospital Aachen, Germany
Department of Neurology (Prof. Jörg B. Schulz)
Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
Department of General Psychiatry
Section of Geriatric Psychiatry (Prof. Johannes Schröder)
Contact at Eurice
Claudia Giehl
Senior Programme Manager
Phone: +49 681 9592 3378
Email
Project Website
www.lipididiet.eu