£3 Million UKRI Investment to Accelerate Diet and Health Innovation
The STAR Hub is pleased to highlight a major new £3 million investment from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), aimed at accelerating innovation in diet, nutrition and sustainable food systems across the UK.
This investment will support the Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club (ORIC), enabling collaborative research and development between academia, industry and wider stakeholders. The programme is designed to drive the development of healthier, high-quality and more sustainable food products, while improving understanding of how food composition and processing influence health outcomes.
The funding will help catalyse innovative approaches across the food system, from reformulation and novel ingredients to advanced processing technologies, with a strong focus on translating research into real-world impact for public health, consumers and industry.
As a proud member of the Diet and Health ORIC network, the STAR Hub plays a key role in fostering partnerships that bring together multidisciplinary expertise, industry insight and policy relevance. This investment closely aligns with STAR Hub’s mission to support innovation that enables people to start healthy and stay healthy throughout the life course.
STAR Hub will continue to support and promote opportunities arising from this programme, helping partners to connect, collaborate and maximise impact.
Read the full UKRI announcement.