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Nutrileads wins prestigious Eurostars grant
The startup Nutrileads, part of Startlife, was the winner of the Eurostars grant on 21 november. An interesting prize to support the development of its lead ingredient IMPP-1 for application in medical foods. The startup is located in Plus Ultra on Wageningen Campus.
Nutrileads (as consortium leader) and 4 partners from the Netherlands, Germany
and Finland have been awarded a € 2 million Eurostars project called NIMF. The
consortium will develop Nutrileads’ proprietary ingredient Immune Modulatory Plant
Polysaccharide-1 (IMPP-1) into a new ingredient for medical food products to fight
impaired immune functioning as a result of malnutrition (particularly common in a
variety of patient groups). Nutrileads is developing this ingredient, in addition to
medical food products, also for other food applications like dietary supplements and
functional food.
The NIMF project was the highest rated project with a Dutch participant, ranking 4th
of 269 applications across all fields in Europe. Erik Dam, CBO of NutriLeads
emphasizes: “The very positive evaluation of the NIMF project provides a further
validation of the relevance of our proposition and the quality of our science, team
and partners”.