Project

Preservation of the gut microbiome in health and disease: a novel in vitro modeling approach

Code
178BL1013
Duration
01 September 2013 → 31 August 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Gastro-enterology and hepatology
    • Gastro-enterology and hepatology
    • Gastro-enterology and hepatology
Keywords
gut microbiome
 
Project description

The goal of this project is the development of stable and representative microbial communities, which can serve as models for healthy or disturbed intestinal flora, and with which the in vitro SHIME gastro-intestinal simulation platform may be inoculated. This innovative technology, the expansion of the in vitro simulation platform Prodigest will allow the pharmaceutical and therapeutic market.