Amsterdam UMC is formulating an ambitious vision on how to contribute to Food for Life (FFL) through science for society. The FFL initiative aims to create a cross-cutting research line around food that unites all eight Amsterdam UMC research institutes, and covers food as medicine, food as part of care, food for prevention and food for planetary health.

Within this bigger picture, how can AGEM contribute from its biological/mechanistic point of view? First and foremost by uniting our efforts, combining our research and collaborating. In order to then create both societal and healthcare impact, we envision the involvement of various external stakeholders and the establishment of public private partnerships to ensure adequate implementation of our joint research findings.

To involve all AGEM researchers and inform everyone about the FFL research being done at our research institute, we are organizing the AGEM Food for Life symposium on October 11th, 2024.

More details will follow soon! In the meantime, you can read more about the initiative.