Quadram Institute Bioscience

We aim to create a new high-fibre juice-shot enriched with a proven fibre blend to support gut health. This offers a tasty and affordable way for the UK to meet their daily 30g fibre goal.

To be deemed to a 'probiotic' a strain must be specified, be present and alive in significant numbers in the gut, and impart a health benefit on the host. One of the challenges when administering probiotics is ensuring they can survive in product throughout product shelf-life and reach the gut in a viable state. Being able to establish specific and optima...

Micronutrient (MN) deficiency is a form of malnutrition that occurs due to low intake and/or absorption of minerals and vitamins, with adverse consequences for human development and health. Children, adolescents, women of reproductive age (including pregnancy) and older adults (representing ~70% of European society) as well as immigrant/ethnic minority gr...

The CATALYSE project will create a network of food safety actors with the aim to support adoption of knowledge and innovative solutions along the value chain. The network will foster collaboration and food safety knowledge sharing in a model that COLLECTS and then TRANSLATES knowledge and practices across our community through active EDUCATION and FACILIT...

Our vision is to develop a novel carbonated soft drink fortified with a fibre-blend with evidence-based benefits to gut microbes that offers a tasty, convenient and affordable way for the UK to easily achieve their recommended fibre intake of 30g each day. An initial assessment of the current carbonated drink formulation (FUNKi-1.0) on the gut microbiome ...

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The proposed project aims to tackle two of the major hurdles in the fight against AMR, new drugs and new diagnostics. The new diagnostics will utilise cutting edge UK technology (Oxford Nanopore sequencing) to provide test results with unprecedented depth of information within 6 hours as opposed to the current technologies which routinely take 24-48 hours...

"Antibiotic overuse contributes to increasing the reservoir of resistant bacteria, resulting in increased human mortality (10million deaths a year globally by 2050), increased hospital stay lengths (20-30days), and estimates of global direct- and indirect- costs up to c.£77 trillion. Currently, no new antibiotics are under development and alternatives are...

To prevent transmission in the human food chain this feasibility project will target control of biofilms formed by microbial pathogens in the meat supply chain. The work will be tested Campylobacter and Salmonella, two of the most common foodborne pathogens in the United Kingdom. A particular focus will be given to the possible inhibition and removal of s...

The aim of this project is to exploit recent UK research to develop and evaluate the feasibility of a process to recycle 150,000 tonnes of waste paper crumble produced during the recylcing of waste paper. The crumble will be exploited for the component inorganic material. The organic cellulose component will also be used as a low cost source of glucose fo...

The SUSSLE Process/Shelf Life is an outcome from the recently completed LINK project. It is an intermediate heat process and shelf-life that can be used for the safe production of cooked chilled foods. However, the SUSSLE Process/Shelf Life cannot presently be used in the production of all cooked chilled foods. The project aims to combine details from ind...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a method ideally suited to measuring subtle chemical changes. Unfortunately the exploitation of this chemical sensitivity for process control and quality assurance is hampered by the high costs involved in buying and maintaining a spectrometer and the necessity for expert staff. The issue of cost is being a...