Functional and Medical Foods for Chronic Diseases: Bioactive Compounds and Biomarkers

Functional Food Center is pleased to announce its 20th International Conference "Functional and Medical Foods for Chronic Diseases: Bioactive Compounds and Biomarkers". The conference will be held in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School Boston, USA on September 22-23, 2016. This conference will bring together experts in medicine, functional food science, and the food industry to discuss functional foods with bioactive compounds as dietary interventions for chronic diseases. Don't miss out on this exciting meeting, August 30th, 2016 is the Standard Registration Deadline!

Main conference topics will include:

• Functional Food Definition and the Status of Functional Foods in Japan, China, USA and other Countries
• Health Claims: Nutraceutical, Functional and Medical Food Regulations
• Functional Foods and Obesity
• Functional Foods and Diabetes
• Functional Foods and Neurological Diseases
• Functional Foods and Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD)
• Functional Foods and Cancer
• Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Cancer
• Prevention and Management of Dementia
• The Effects of Nutrition and Functional Foods on Aging and Health
• Roles of Food Derived Nitrite / Nitrate from Cured Meat to Vegetables, to Hypertension and/or Antioxidant Effect
• Functional Foods with Bioactive Compound(s): Prevention and Management of Noncommunicable Diseases
• Safety of the Bioactive Compounds and Functional Foods
• Current Research and Development of New Functional Food Products

Speakers: Paula Trumbo, PhD; Bruce P. Burnett, PhD; Debasis Bagchi, PhD; Francesco Marotta, MD, PhD; Nancy J. Emenaker, PhD; Gabriela Riscuta MD; Jin-Rong Zhou, PhD; Hoyoku Nishino, MD, PhD; Elizabeth Johnson, PhD; Hiroshi Maeda, PhD; Zhongyi Li, PhD; Danik Martirosyan, PhD; Carol Dillon, PhD, MD; Narendra Deshmukh; Valentina Guzmán-Pérez, PhD; Anand Swaroop, PhD; Harry G. Preuss MD; Sushil Sharma, PhD; Roula M. Abdel-Massih, PhD; Rachel Wong, PhD; Nathan S. Bryan, PhD; Christina B. Wegener, PhD; Jerzy "George" Szewczyk, PhD; María Dolores del Castillo, PhD; Johannes Westendorf, PhD; Jacklyn Jackson; Doman Kim, PhD; Nazma Shaheen, PhD; Atif Can Seydim, PhD; H. P. Vasantha Rupasinghe, PhD; Na Zhang, PhD; Weili Li, PhD; Yujuan Shan, PhD; Yasuhito Shirai, PhD; Manashi Bagchi, PhD; Malcolm Riley, PhD; Komal Chauhan, PhD; Peter Kador, PhD; Ananda S. Prasad, MD, PhD; Barbara Shukitt-Hale, PhD; Tammy M. Scott, PhD; Francine Grodstein, ScD

Exhibitors: BESO Biological Research, Food Science Publisher, Vibrant America, Lifeway Foods, Osato Research Institute, Danem Dairy Products, and more!