Developing New Functional Food and Nutraceutical Products

Debasis Bagchi, PhD, MACN, CNS, MAIChE, received his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1982. He is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX, and Chief Scientific Officer at Cepham Research Center, Piscataway, NJ, Adjunct Faculty in Texas Southern University, Houston, TX. He served as the Senior Vice President of Research & Development of InterHealth Nutraceuticals Inc, Benicia, CA, from 1998 until Feb 2011, and then as Director of Innovation and Clinical Affairs, of Iovate Health Sciences, Oakville, ON, until June 2013. Dr. Bagchi received the Master of American College of Nutrition Award in October 2010. He is the Past Chairman of International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (ISNFF), Past President of American College of Nutrition, Clearwater, FL, and Past Chair of the Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Division of Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Chicago, IL. He is serving as a Distinguished Advisor on the Japanese Institute for Health Food Standards (JIHFS), Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Bagchi is a Member of the Study Section and Peer Review Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD. He has published 321 papers in peer reviewed journals, 30 books, and 18 patents. Dr. Bagchi is also a Member of the Society of Toxicology, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Nutrition Research Academy, and Member of the TCE stakeholder Committee of the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. He is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Functional Foods, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and the Archives of Medical and Biomedical Research, and is also serving as Editorial Board Member of numerous peer reviewed journals, including Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Cancer Letters, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, and The Original Internist, among others. Dr. Sreejayan Nair is a Professor of Pharmacology and the Associate Dean for Research in the School of Pharmacy, College of Health Sciences, University of Wyoming. He also serves as the Director of the interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program in the University of Wyoming. Dr. Nair earned his bachelors, masters and PhD degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal, India. He received his post-doctoral trainings at the Department of Medicine-II, Ludwig Maximillians University, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany, and at the Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN. His research interests are diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He has published over 75 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented at various national and international conferences. His research has been funded by the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, and the National Institutes of Health. He has co-edited three books related to diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition.

• 1. Growth Pattern & Emerging Opportunities in Nutraceutical and Functional Food Industries: Market Analysis2. Market Analysis and Concept Development of Functional Foods3. Marketing Challenges and Strategies4. The Strategic Viewpoints of Innovation and Marketing Teams on the Development of Novel Functional Foods 5. Food Safety: Marketing Trends Intended for Consumer Awareness and Partnership6. Intellectual Property Considerations7. Regulatory Constraints on New Product Development and Approval Procedures in the United States8. Formulations and Challenges: A Special Emphasis on Stability and Safety Evaluations9. Nutraceutical Formulations and Challenges10. Sourcing, Supply Chain and Manufacturing of Nutraceutical & Functional Foods11. Raw Materials Analysis and Quality Control12. Strategize the Research Investigations: Pre-Clinical and Clinical Evaluations13. Concepts of Flavor Creation in Novel Nutraceuticals and Functional Food Formulations14. Mind Genomics, Cognitive Economics, and the Dollar Value and the Acceptance of Sensory and Other Messaging for Bread15. Global Market Entry Regulations for Nutraceuticals, Functional Foods, Dietary/Food/ Health Supplements16. U.S. Regulation of Food Label Claims17. Nutraceutical and Functional Food Regulations in the European Union18. Health Foods and Foods with Health Claims in the Asian Subcontinent – Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations19. Nutraceutical Innovation and Health Claims in China20. Functional foods in line with young consumers: Challenges in the Marketplace in Slovenia21. Medical Foods and US Regulations 22. Regulatory Approvals, Intellectual Property, Branding and Trademark in Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods23. Nutrition in Wound Inflammation24. Development of Low Cost and Eco-Friendly Feed for Various Candidate Species for the Sustainability of Commercial Aquaculture and Reduction of Aquatic Pollution25. Global Alert: The Botanicals Resourcing26. Strategies on Adverse Event Reporting: A Global Framework for Nutraceutical Industry27. Genetically Modified Products and GMO Foods: A Game of Chance?