- 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.
Archer Daniels Midland Company
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