programme de la conférence

10:45 am - 1:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chairs: Marleny Saldana and Alain Doyen 

10:45 - Welcome words
Alain Doyen, Scientific Director, Institute of Nutrition and Functional Foods (INAF)
Pierre Haddad, President, Natural Health Product Research Society of Canada

11:00 - Development of sustainable processes for the extraction of neuroprotective fractions from microalgae
Elena Ibanez, Full Research Professor, Institute of Food Science Research (CIAL, CSIC), Spain

11:45 - Innovative biocatalytic approaches for the production of functional carbohydrates from abundant starting materials or biomasses
Salwa Karboune, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, INAF, Canada

12:10 - Application of emergent high voltage electrical treatments to produce bioactive molecules from food matrices
Sergey Mikhaylin, Assistant Professor, Food Science Department, Université Laval, INAF, Canada

12:35 - Pressurized Fluid Processing Development for Natural Health Products and Functional Foods
Marleny Saldana, Professor in Food/Bio-Engineering Processing, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Hosted by Natural Products Canada

1:30 pm - APPROACHES TO PARTNERSHIP
This panel will reveal opportunities and challenges of partnerships between researchers and industry as described through real-world experiences between universities and corporate entities. Various examples will be explored through real-world recounts of collaborations between researchers and multinationals, SMEs, as well as investigator-led commercial projects. Time permitting, select questions will be accepted from the audience.

MODERATOR: Shelley King, CEO, Natural Products Canada

• INAF (Yves Desjardins) and Diana Foods (Mathieu Bergamini)
• U of G ( Tariq A. Akhtar) and Canurta (Akeem Gardner)
• MedBiome (Daniel Figeys)

Key topics to be covered will include:

• How the relationship began
• Benefits of this approach/relationship
• Challenges or issues based on culture/experience
• How issues were addressed/resolved
• Lessons learned, and recommendations

2:30 pm - MODELS OF IP STRATEGIES
This session will provide a description of the basic types of IP strategies, augmented by the pros and cons of each, and things to consider. The panel will be comprised of legal experts, and ILO professionals from diverse research institutes.

MODERATOR: David Gauthier, VP Commercialization, Natural Products Canada 

• Bereskin Parr (Noel Courage)
• Acadia University (Leigh Huestis)
• Loyalist College (Kari Kramp)

Key topics to be covered will include:

• Implications of IP and when/why/how to approach it
• Overview of basic models
• Discussion on pros/cons of each with examples from each panelist
• Considerations to determine the right model for the project/technology

11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chairs: David St-Pierre and Guy Rousseau 

11:00 -The gut microbiome-endocannabinoidome axis as a target for the beneficial effects of dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on animal and human health
Vincenzo Di Marzo, Full Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair, FSAA, Université Laval, INAF, Canada, and Associated Research Director, Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of the National Research Council (ICB-CNR), Italy

11:30 - Food-derived prebiotics in nutrition and health :  hopes, facts, and gaps
Nathalie Delzenne, Full Professor, Faculty of Parmaceutical and biomedical sciences, UCLouvain, Belgium

12:00 - Urolithin A improves muscle strength and impacts on biomarkers of cellular health in humans
Davide d'Amico, R&D Group Leader at Amazentis, a biotech startup in Lausanne, Switzerland 

12:30 - Pulses as prebiotics for improving health
Phil Chilibeck. Professor, College of Kinesiology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chair: Marleny Saldana and Yves Pouliot

1:30 - Food-derived proteins and peptides as natural health products
Rotimi Aluko, Professor, Department of Food and Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada

2:00 - High value natural polymers from the sea: Marine by-products turned into attractive health ingredients via innovative technologies
Lucie Beaulieu, Full Professor, Food Science Department, Université Laval, INAF, Canada 

2:30 - Edible insects as alternative sources of biofunctional peptides: Opportunities and challenges
Chibuike Udenigwe, Full Professor and University Research Chair, School of Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada

3:00 - Modification of pulse starch properties by nanoparticulation techniques
Thava Vasanthan, Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Ag, Food & Nutri Sci Dept, University of Alberta, Canada 

11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chair: Pierre Haddad 

11:00 - Vaccinium berries: superfruit sources of natural health products in the fight against cardiovascular disease
Marva Sweeney-Nixon, Full Professor, Department of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

 11:30 - Best Practice in the chemical characterisation of extracts used in pharmacological and toxicological research - The ConPhyMP - guidelines
Michael Heinrich, Professor of Ethnopharmacology and Pharmacognosy, UCL School of Pharmacy, United Kingdom 

12:00 - Food for health, food for thought
Robert Verpoorte, Professor Emeritus, member of the Natural Products Laboratory, Leiden University, Netherlands

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chair: Pierre Haddad 

1:30 - Genetics of triglyceride response to omega-3 fatty acid supplementation
Marie-Claude Vohl, Professor at School of Nutrition, Université Laval, INAF, Canada  

2:10 - Genetic Testing for Personalized Nutrition: Ready for prime time?
Ahmed El-Sohemy, Professor and Associate Chair, University of Toronto, Founder of Nutrigenomix Inc., Canada

2:50 - 3MT Competition 

Chairs: Marleny Saldana and Jerome Yage

Exceptionally 11:00 am - 1:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chairs: Krista Coventry and Michael Smith

11:00 - Natural and Non-prescription Health Products Directorate (NNHPD) presentation

Health Canada's Natural and Non-Prescription Health Products Directorate and the Pharmaceutical Drugs Directorate will be presenting on key regulatory modernization initiatives. In particular, this presentation will serve to introduce an ambitious vision for the modernization of Canada's clinical trials regulatory framework that will better serve the needs of Canadian stakeholders while continuing to protect the safety of trial participants in a modern healthcare ecosystem. The presentation will also provide updates on the implementation of the Self-Care Framework as well as work underway to develop a potential regulatory pathway for health products containing cannabis that would not require practitioner oversight.

A shared understanding between the regulator and the research community of key regulatory modernization projects underway will support and enable increased opportunities for collaboration between Health Canada and the Natural Health Product Research Society of Canada.

Panelists:

Nathalie Page, Director General, NNHPD
Helene Lowell, Senior Policy Analyst, NNHPD
Eva McGrath, Policy Manager, NNHPD
Brian Parker, Senior Policy Analyst TPD

11:35 - Discussion

Food Directorate presentations

11:50  - Developing a Regulatory Framework to Enable Clinical Trials on Non-compliant Foods for a Special Dietary Purpose
Robin J. Marles, Senior Scientific Advisor, Bureau of Nutritional Sciences, Food Directorate, Health Canada, Canada  

12:10 - Supplemented Foods Update
Jennifer Barber, Section Head, Nutrition Premarket Assessment Division, Bureau of Nutritional Sciences, Food Directorate, Health Canada, Canada 

12:40 - Discussion

12:55 - Drugs, Foods, Dietary Supplements in the U.S.
Joseph M. Betz, Acting Director, Office of Dietary Supplements, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

13:15 - Discussion

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chair: Pierre Haddad

2:00 - Micronutrients, immunity and COVID-19
Philip C. Calder, Professor of Nutritional Immunology, University of Southampton, United Kingdom 

3:00 - Molecular Interactions of Tannic Acid with Proteins Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity
Roger Gaudreault, Invited Researcher, Université de Montréal and CGCC, Canada 

11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chairs: Siyaram Pandey and  Mary Hardy

11:00 - Upcoming title
Mary Hardy, MD., Medical director, UCLA, California, United States

11:45 - An Integrative Oncology Framework for Discussions Regarding Nutrition and Supplements
Gabriel Lopez, MD., Associate Professor and Medical Director of the Integrative Medicine Center, Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation, & Integrative Medicine, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States

12:10 - Cancer-management efficacies of dietary flavonoids and their derivatives
Vasantha Rupasinghe, Professor of Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals, Dalhousie University, Canada 

12:35 - Anti-cancer Natural extracts, scientific validation, mechanism of action, and interaction with standard chemotherapeutic drugs: Challenges in the development as a mainstream cancer therapy
Siyaram Pandey, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Windsor, Canada

Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

1:30 - NHPRS AGM  

2:30 - Neil Towers Award Announcement and Lecture

11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chair: Charles Ramassamy

11:00 - New perspectives on randomized controlled trials with omega-3 fatty acid supplements and cognition: a systematic review
Mélanie Plourde, Full Professor in the Department of Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Université de Sherbrooke, INAF, Canada 

11 :30 - The Potential Cognitive Health Impact of Berries
Barbara Shukitt-Hale, Research Psychologist, USDA, ARS, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, United States

12:00 - Psychedelics Rediscovered: New Uses for Ancient Medicines
Dennis McKenna, Principal Founder & President at McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy, British Columbia, Canada 

12:45 - Evaluating the Efficacy of Ashwagandha and Ubisol-Q10 as Treatment for Mechanisms Implicated in Parkinson's Disease
Gabrielle Walach, Undergraduate student in Behaviour, Cognition, and Neuroscience, University of Windsor, Canada

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time [UTC-4]

Chair: Kieran Cooley, Director of Research, Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine

1:30 - Challenges and Opportunities for Naturopathy in NHP Clinical Research 
Ryan Bradley, Senior Investigator, Director of Research and Associate Professor, National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM), United States

1:45 - NHPs in Naturopathic Medicine: Industry Perspectives on Supplement Quality and Education
Christopher Knee, naturopathic doctor and clinical researcher, Fullscript's Integrative Medical Advisory Team, Canada 

2:00 - Naturopathic Care and NHPs
Iva Lloyd, part-time professor, Canadien College of Naturopathic Medecine, Canada 

2:15 - Implementation of the Natural Health Product Regulations 
Shawn O'Reilly, Executive Director and Director of Government Relations for the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors (CAND), Canada  

 2:30 - Panel Discussion