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PhD Director of Research in INSERM for 24 years and head of INSERM and University of Lorraine Research Units in Nancy: “Interactions Géne-Environnement en Physiopathologie Cardio-Vasculaire” (IGE-PCV) for 15 years. She has aPhD on Genetic Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of Nancy and Her main Research interests are in the domain of public health, personalised medicine, prevention, genetic epidemiology, genomics and pharmacogenomics, cardio-vascular
diseases, VEGF-A and inflammation.

is an Assistant Professor in Molecular (Pharmaco) Epidemiology at UMC Utrecht and a visiting scientist at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Her research focuses on molecular epidemiology, particularly in diabetes precision medicine, using omics approaches (genomics and metabolomics) to predict and understand complications of type 2 diabetes, including those affecting the brain, heart, liver, and kidneys.

MD, MPH, PhD, is the Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His major research interests include epidemiology and prevention of cardiometabolic diseases through diet and lifestyle; gene-environment interactions and risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes; nutritional metabolomics in type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease; and nutrition transition, metabolic phenotypes, and cardiovascular disease in low and middle-income countries.

Ph.D., is Professor of Nutrition and a Senior Scientist at the USDA-Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts where he also is the Director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory. In addition, he is Professor of Genetics and Pharmacology at the School of Biomedical Sciences. In Spain, he is leader of the Nutritional Genomics and Epigenomics Group at IMDEA-Food, Madrid.

Professor on Personal Data Protection Law at the Faculty of Law & Criminology of the Free University of Brussels (VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel), focusing also on Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, and the broader topic of technology regulation. He is the director of VUB’s Cyber and Data Security Lab (CDSL), as well as, a core member of VUB’s Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) and the Brussels Privacy Hub.

Rooholla Poursoleymani is a PhD student with a background in Artificial Intelligence, specializing in Bioinformatics. His research interests include causal discovery and inference, representation learning, and multimodal data integration.

Dr. Antonio Noto is an assistant professor of Clinical Biochemistry.

Dr. Cristina Piras is an assistant professor of Clinical Pathology.

Delfien Gryspeerdt holds a PhD researcher position at Ghent University, unit Health Economics. She has a background as a physiotherapist and a master in biopharmaceutical management. Besides the health economic evaluation of the BETTER4U project, currently she is also involved in the health economic evaluation of the H2020-project DigiCare4You.

Mathematician-Statistician and PhD student in Bioinformatics at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics of HUA, supervised by Professor Georgios Dedoussis. In BETTER4U, he participates as a Bioinformatician.