Code
01SC6418
Duration
01 October 2018 → 30 September 2022
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Other chemical sciences
- Microbiology
- Systems biology
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Medical and health sciences
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Laboratory medicine
- Nutrition and dietetics
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
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Engineering and technology
- Biomaterials engineering
- Biological system engineering
- Biomaterials engineering
- Biomechanical engineering
- Other (bio)medical engineering
- Environmental engineering and biotechnology
- Industrial biotechnology
- Other biotechnology, bio-engineering and biosystem engineering
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Agricultural animal production
- Food sciences and (bio)technology
Keywords
Tea polyphenols
Gut microbiome
Indivudual variability
Project description
The application of tea polyphenols holds promise in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. However, the current scientific evidence is clouded by a huge interindividual variability in observed health effects. This is due to the fact that there are many confounding factors in human
intervention studies: age, gender, diet, gene polymorphisms, and – importantly- the human gut microbiome.