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Platform for Clinical Trials in Nutrition and Health

Despite the known link between dietary patterns and disease, it has been observed that the specific response of each individual to dietary components highly varied, and this may limit the impact of the nutritional interventions to improve public health. These observations provided the basis to the development of the Nutritional Genomics at the beginning of the 90s, which main goal was to study the interaction between dietary factors and the genome that modulate phenotypic expression. From this idea, in the recent years, Precision Nutrition has been emerged as a therapeutic approach that takes into account all individual's characteristics to develop targeted nutritional advices. The main goal of Precision Nutrition is to maintain or improve health by using genetics, phenotypic, clinical, dietary and other information to provide more precise and more efficacious personalized healthy eating advice and to motivate appropriate dietary changes. However, all the genotype-dependent advice must be based on scientific evidence. Most of the available evidence in support of personalized nutrition has come from observational studies with risk factors as outcomes, and it was needed randomized controlled trials using clinical endpoints to ratify these results. The main objective of the Platform for Clinical Trials in Nutrition and Health (GENYAL) is to contribute to Precision Nutrition Research by the construction, for the first time, of a human gene and phenotype database to be used in: 1) The evaluation of the efficacy of different foods, functional foods and bioactive compounds capsules on general population and by genotypes and 2) The performance of nutritional genetics and nutrigenomics studies. For that purposes, GENYAL has a permanent recruitment of volunteers, which are phenotypically and genotypically characterized, and give consent to be contacted to perform clinical trials and nutritional intervention studies. Therefore, GENYAL may help to increase the existing knowledge for moving along to Nutritional Genomics research to its practical application in Precision Nutrition; contributing in the improvement in health and disease prevention through dietary recommendations based on the genome.

Start: November 2011
Mobile Attention Retraining in Overweight Female Adolescents

Background: People are constantly exposed to unhealthy foods. Some studies of adults show that training attention away from unhealthy foods might reduce overeating. Researchers want to see what happens in the brain when teens train their attention away from food through a program on a smartphone. Objective: To study the relationship between eating patterns, body weight, and how the brain reacts to different images. Eligibility: Right-handed females ages 12-17 who are overweight (Body Mass Index at or above the 85th percentile for age). Design: Participants will have 6 visits over about 8 months. Visit 1: participants will be screened with: Height, weight, blood pressure, and waist size measurements Medical history Physical exam Urine sample DXA scan. Participants will lie on a table while a very small dose of x-rays passes through the body. Questions about their general health, social and psychological functioning, and eating habits Parents or guardians of minor participants will answer questions about their child s functioning and demographic data. Before visits 2-6, participants will not eat or drink for about 12 hours. These visits will include some or all of these procedures: Blood drawn MRI scan. Participants will lie on a stretcher that slides in and out of a metal cylinder in a strong magnetic field. A device will be placed over the head. Meals provided. Participants will fill out rating forms. Simple thinking tasks A cone containing magnetic field detectors placed onto the head Medical history Physical exam Urine sample Participants will be assigned to a 2-week smartphone program that involves looking at pictures. Participants will complete short tasks and answer some questions about their eating habits and mood on the smartphone.

Start: February 2017
First Research Study to Look at How Two Medicines, NNC0480-0389 and Semaglutide, Work Together in Healthy People, in People With High Body Weight and in People With Diabetes

The purpose of this study is to investigate how safe, and how well tolerated, the new study drug NNC0480-0389 is when it is given together with semaglutide. This will be investigated in healthy participants, participants with high bodyweight and participants with type 2 diabetes (T2D). NNC0480-0389 has not been given to humans before. It has been previously tested in the laboratory and on animals. NNC0480-0389 will be tested at various dose levels. Semaglutide is a new approved drug and is already available on the market for treatment of diabetes. It will also be investigated how quickly and to what extent NNC0480-0389 and semaglutide are taken up and eliminated from the body. This is called pharmacokinetics. The effect of NNC0480-0389 given together with semaglutide will also be investigated on body weight and glucose levels in the blood. This is called pharmacodynamics. The effects of NNC0480-0389 and/or semaglutide will be compared to the effects of a placebo. A placebo is a "dummy" medicine without any active medicine. Placebo looks like NNC0480-0389 and/or semaglutide. There are 4 possibilities for which treatment participants will get; participants will receive NNC0480-0389 and semaglutide or NNC0480-0389 and placebo or placebo with semaglutide, or placebo with placebo. Participants and the responsible doctor will not know which combination participants will be given. This is called a double-blinded study. However, this information can be looked up during the study if it is important for participants' health. The study medicines will be given as injections under the skin. Participants will be in the study for about 25 weeks.

Start: February 2020
Immunogenicity of Recombinant Vesicular Stomatitis Vaccine for Ebola-Zaire (rVSV[Delta]G-ZEBOV-GP) for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PREP) in People at Potential Occupational Risk for Ebola Virus Exposure

Background: The Ebola virus causes a severe disease. It can be fatal. The usual incubation period after being exposed is 2 to 21 days. There is no approved treatment for Ebola infection. There is also no vaccine to prevent infection either before or after exposure. Researchers want to test an Ebola vaccine. They want to give it to people before they are exposed to the virus in order to prevent the disease. Objectives: To see how long-lasting and effective the vaccine rVSV[delta]G ZEBOV-GP (V920) is at preventing Ebola. Eligibility: Healthy adults at risk of exposure to the Ebola virus at work through lab or clinical contact. Design: Participants will be screened with medical history, physical exam, and blood tests. Participants will get the study vaccine. It will be injected into their upper arm. Participants will be monitored closely for at least 30 minutes. They will get a diary card to record any symptoms they have from the vaccine for up to 14 days. Participants will have study visits at 1, 3, and 6 months after they get the vaccine, then every 6 months (that is, at months 12, 18, 19, 24, 30, and 36 of study) for a total of 36 months. Eighteen months after they join the study, participants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups. One group will get a second (or booster ) dose of the vaccine. The other group will not get a second dose. This study lasts 36 months.

Start: October 2016