UZDRAVLJe – Health-related biomarkers’ comparison in people with different dietary habits

Collaborators: Goran Gajski, Isabel Moreno Indias, Martina Bituh, Selma Cvijetić Avdagić, Marijana Vučić Lovrenčić, Mirta Milić, Manuel Macias Gonzalez, Tatjana Orct, Luka Kazensky, Katarina Matković

Funding: Croatian Science Foundation

Call: IP-2025-02-2823

Project Duration: 31 Dec 2025 – 30 Dec 2028

Project Webpage: https://projekti.imi.hr/uzdravlje/

Project Summary
Diet is part of the human exposome that can be easily modified, yet it is one of the key factors in sustaining health and wellbeing. Despite thorough research describing the benefits of particular diet types, the results on their impact on human health are still inconclusive. UZDRAVLJe project aims to compare different dietary patterns using a multi-biomarker approach (nutritional profiling, body composition, baseline DNA damage, microbiome analysis, biochemical biomarkers, epigenetics) on a set of samples from human volunteers (N=200). An international multidisciplinary nutrigenomics team will tackle a problem of national and global relevance – diet-related impact on health biomarkers. The project’s outcomes include results that will interest the general public, the scientific community, legal bodies, and industry. Moreover, the project will improve capacity building and involvement of early career researchers in internationally relevant projects. Finally, the UZDRAVLJe project focuses on improving human health based on their dietary preferences aligning with S3 thematic priority personalised health care and supporting the environmental sustainability of the European Green Deal.