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Future of food: Insights from experts at Imperial College London

The Centre for Translational Nutrition and Food Research brings together a multi-disciplinary team with leading expertise to drive scientific endeavours to address key global challenges in Food, Nutrition and Health.

Our aims and objectives are delivered through cross-cutting research themes which stretch broadly across Imperial College Faculties of Medicine, Natural Sciences, Engineering, School of Public Health and the Business School along with a broad range of academic, industrial and third party collaborators.

Nutrition, food and health

Focuses on the prevention of non-communicable disease, the promotion of good health, and the primary prevention of nutrition related illness in the population through multidisciplinary research in food and nutrition - by combining molecular and medicine approaches to develop sustainable and economically viable strategies.

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Intelligent food design, engineering and monitoring

Deploying cross-disciplinary approaches to combine technology innovation and whole systems modelling to tackle the challenges around food availability, and creating sustainable and nutritious food options for the public.

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Food security

Tackling the different but related food sustainability challenges faced by the developed and developing countries, reducing negative environmental impact, and improving efficiency of food production.

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Economics and policy of food

We utilise expertise from economic and policy analysis in a multi-factor framework to bring together government, business and civil society stakeholders to identify effective and innovative solutions to safeguard the health of current and future generations.

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