Letters in Functional Foods

The Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spanish: Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. UAB is one of the best universities in Spain.

Anadolu University has gained a well-deserved place as a modern, dynamic and innovative institution among the largest universities not only in Türkiye, but also in the world.

The Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) was founded in 1665. With 27,000 students and around 3,700 employees, it is the oldest, largest and best-known university in the state between the seas and the only full university in Schleswig-Holstein. Seven Nobel Prize winners worked here. The CAU has been successfully participating in the Excellence Initiative since 2006.

Çukorova University - Tropical Disease Research and Application Center (TDRAC) was founded and officially approved by “Turkiye Institution of Higher Education” in 1984. TDRAC has been involved in research studies on the diagnosis, molecular epidemiology, and detecting vectors of regional tropical and subtropical diseases like Leishmania, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and Amoebiasis. The center also conducts training for laboratory diagnosis and new and educational treatments since its foundation.

Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin) Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin) is a leading research institution. It is one of the 13 German universities being funded through the German government’s Excellence Strategy and is part of the only University Consortium of Excellence, the Berlin University Alliance. Freie Universität Berlin has 16 academic departments and central institutes offering over 150 degree programs across a wide range of subjects.

Founded in 1743, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is now one of the largest research universities in Germany with 38,878 students. The five faculties cover the entire spectrum of modern academic disciplines – from humanities, social sciences and theology to medicine, law, economics, sciences and engineering.
One of FAU’s defining features is its commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and research, which frequently go beyond the boundaries of individual subjects.

Goethe University was founded in 1914 as a unique “citizens' university," financed by wealthy citizens in Frankfurt, Germany. Named in 1932 after one of the city's most famous natives, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, today the university has over 48,000 students including around 7,600 international students from some 136 different countries.

With a long tradition of shaping the future, Heidelberg University sees itself as an internationally oriented research and teaching institution that offers a rich range of subjects and disciplines. It acknowledges its responsibility to humanity, society, and nature and is committed to broadening and harnessing its knowledge and skills, in a spirit of open-mindedness and tolerance toward individuals and ideas, for the benefit of future generations.

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is one of the younger higher education institutions in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia – founded in 1965. Since 1988 our university has carried the name of one of the city’s finest sons. Today around 35,000 students study at a modern campus under conditions ideally suited to academic life.

The Imperial College London is a world-class university with a mission to benefit society through excellence in science, engineering, medicine and business.

With around 32,000 students from 120 nations, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one of the largest and most diverse universities in Germany. With its university medicine, its universities of arts and music and its department of translation, linguistics and cultural studies in Germersheim, it unites almost all academic disciplines under one roof. Around 4,400 scientists, including 570 professors, teach and research in its more than 100 institutes and clinics. With 75 subjects and numerous subject combinations, JGU offers more than 270 courses.
As the only German university of its size, the JGU houses almost all of the institutes on a campus close to the city center, which also houses four partner institutes for top-level research outside the university: the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPI-C) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) and the Institute for Molecular Biology (IMB). The university medicine campus is only about one kilometer away, the two Mainz institutes of the Leibniz Association - the Institute for European History (IEG) and the Roman-Germanic Central Museum (RGZM) - are only a little further away in the city center. There are also numerous research companies that make Mainz a highly dynamic research location.

The history of Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg reaches back as far as 1402. At that time, it was the sixth institution of higher education to be founded in the German-speaking regions of Europe, after the universities in Prague, Vienna, Heidelberg, Cologne, and Erfurt.
Many eminent scholars and scientists, 14 Nobel Laureates among them, have conducted research and taught in Würzburg. Notable scientists include Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, who discovered X-rays in Würzburg in 1895, and Klaus von Klitzing, who discovered the Quantum-Hall Effect. Today, Würzburg’s university comprises ten faculties with approximately 425 professors and 29,000 students.

Kettering General Hospital NHS Trust (KGH) managed by NHS Foundation Trust, UK, provides access to a range of knowledge resources and services to help healthcare staff and students find and use the best evidence to support patient care, to enhance their studies and professional development and to support research.

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is a leading research university in Europe. Since its founding in 1472 it has been committed to the highest international standards of excellence in research and teaching.

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lusophone University of Humanitiesand Technologies) is the largest Portuguese private university, and the main institution of Grupo Lusófona, which administers other universities and colleges in Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. Promotion of Lusophony (the speaking of Portuguese) is seen as a major objective of the institution.

The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) offers a wide range of academic subjects in the areas of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and medicine. The oldest and largest university in Saxony-Anhalt was created in 1817 when the University of Wittenberg (founded in 1502) merged with Friedrichs University Halle (founded in 1694). Today the university has around 20,000 students and 340 professors.

The Medical University of Silesia is the largest medical school in Poland. It has been established on the 20th of March 1948. At first it was given the name Medical Academy and was placed in Rokitnica Bytomska.

The Open University of Catalonia is a private open university based in Barcelona, Spain. The UOC offers graduate and postgraduate programs in Catalan, Spanish and English in fields such as Psychology, Computer Science, Sciences of Education, Information and Knowledge Society, and Economics.

Institutional Member (Spanish: Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia in 1990 and was named after Pompeu Fabra. UPF has been ranked the best university in Spain since 2015, and 16th best young university in the world in 2022 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

The Philipps-Universität Marburg is not only a German university steeped in tradition, it is also the oldest university in the world that was founded as a Protestant institution in 1527. It has been a place of research and teaching for nearly five centuries. Nowadays there are around 25,000 students studying in Marburg - 12 percent from all over the world.

Rovira Virgili University (Spanish: Universidad Rovira y Virgili) is located in the Catalan cities of Tarragona and Reus, Spain. It is highly recognized for its research and academics, both nationally and internationally.

Ramon Llull University is a private university located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1990. It comprises several different colleges specialized in different topics, most of which are located in downtown Barcelona.

S.C. AAB_IR RESEARCH S.R.L was founded in 2018 to continue the research in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. The institution later extended research work in the fields of biomedical and food sciences.

The TU Dortmund University (German: Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and master's degree programs. It is situated in the Ruhr area, the fourth largest urban area in Europe. The university is highly ranked in terms of its research performance in the areas of physics, electrical engineering, chemistry and economics.

The Technische Universität Braunschweig is the academic centre of Braunschweig in the centre of Europe's most active research region. With 20,000 students and 3,700 employees, we are the largest technical university in Northern Germany. We offer teaching, research and transfer with excellent facilities and a personal atmosphere at the same time.

Saarland University was founded in 1948 as a bilingual university sponsored by France. It is internationally known for its computer science research and the nano and life sciences. The close ties to France and the focus on Europe are their trademarks: Saarland University has an international character like hardly any other medium-sized German university. A special feature is the wide range of cross-border courses that lead to a double degree or - in cooperation with a third foreign partner - even to a triple degree.

The University and State Library Bonn (ULB Bonn) is the central university and archive library of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. The university and state library is divided into a main library in Adenauerallee and a departmental library for the fields of medicine, natural sciences and agriculture in Nussallee. Taken together, the inventory is over two million volumes of books and magazines. Furthermore, numerous institute libraries of various sizes are assigned to the ULB.

The University of Jena , officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (German: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form Uni Jena) is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany.
The university was established in 1558 and is counted among the ten oldest universities in Germany. It is affiliated with six Nobel Prize winners, most recently in 2000 when Jena graduate Herbert Kroemer won the Nobel Prize for physics. It was renamed after the poet Friedrich Schiller who was teaching as professor of philosophy when Jena attracted some of the most influential minds at the turn of the 19th century. With Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G. W. F. Hegel, F. W. J. Schelling and Friedrich von Schlegel on its teaching staff, the university was at the centre of the emergence of German idealism and early Romanticism.

The University Of Bath is a public university located in Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom. It received its royal charter in 1966. Over the years, the university has established itself as a top 10 UK university with a reputation for research and teaching excellence. It is ranked as the 6th best university in the UK by the Guardian University Guide 2020. Also, the university is ranked 5th for graduate prospects by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020.

The University of Freiburg , which has received numerous awards for excellent research and teaching, is one of the best German universities. Their success is based on the outstanding achievements of their scientists in all eleven faculties. Freiburg offers the whole range of subjects: from the humanities and social sciences to natural science and technical disciplines to medicine with the Freiburg University Hospital, one of the largest medical institutions in Europe.
Within the university, in trinational cooperation with partner institutions in France and Switzerland as well as on a global level: creativity, team spirit and visionary networking are particular strengths of the University of Friborg. They make it possible to find scientific answers to current and future challenges - with research and teaching as the driving force. Around 25,000 students will find the ideal environment here for pioneering, transdisciplinary studies that prepare them to embark on a successful career in or outside of science and to take on social responsibility.

The University of Greifswald is one of the oldest universities in Germany and the Baltic Sea region. Founded in 1456, it is also the oldest Swedish university, as the region was under Swedish rule until 1815 after the end of the 30 Years War.
Today the University of Greifswald is still closely connected to the universities of the Baltic Sea region, and the cultures of the Baltic Sea region are one of its main research areas. But their international relations in research and teaching have expanded to regions and countries around the world. Today the university maintains international exchange relationships with over 200 universities. International students and scientists come from over 90 different countries.

As the largest research and training institution in Northern Germany and one of the largest universities in Germany, the University of Hamburg combines a diverse range of courses with excellent research.
It offers a wide range of subjects with numerous interdisciplinary focal points and has an extensive network of cooperation with top institutions at regional, national and international level.

University of Leipzig was founded in 1409 and is one of Germany’s leading universities when it comes to top-class research and medical expertise. It offers a unique variety of subjects, from the humanities and social sciences to the natural and life sciences.

With more than 45,700 students, the University of Münster is one of the largest universities in Germany. Thanks to its extensive range of degree programmes, multifaceted research profile, and the atmosphere and quality of life in Münster, the University attracts students and researchers from Germany and around the world.

The University of Regensburg (German: Universität Regensburg) is a public research university located in the medieval city of Regensburg, Bavaria, a city that is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university was founded on July 18, 1962 by the Landtag of Bavaria as the fourth full-fledged university in Bavaria. Following groundbreaking in 1965, the university officially opened to students during the 1967–1968 winter semester, initially housing faculties in Law and Business Sciences and Philosophy. During the summer semester of 1968 the faculty of Theology was created. Currently, the University of Regensburg houses eleven faculties.

University of Tübingen is known for excellent research and teaching in Tübingen, and the aim to find solutions for the challenges of the future in a globalized society. To this end, the university collaborates with partners all over the world including other universities as well as with non-university research institutions. Networking and crossing borders between faculties and subjects are the cornerstones of the success strategy of the University of Tübingen. The fact that this strategy works is shown by the very good positions in international rankings. In addition, the University of Tübingen is one of the eleven German universities that were recognized as the best in the country.

The University of Genova (Università di Genova) is one of the largest universities in Italy. Located in Liguria on the Italian Riviera, the university was founded in 1481. The University is comprising a total of 5 schools and 23 departments.

The University of La Laguna Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) with more than 200 years of history, is an institution open to the world. It hosts over 23,000 students, more than 1,800 lecturers and 800 administrative staff offering a high-quality catalogue of degrees and research programs that meet the objectives of the European Higher Education Area.

The University of Lleida (officially in Catalan: Universitat de Lleida) is a university based in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. It was the first university founded in Catalonia and in the ancient Crown of Aragon. It is a leading institution in Spain for research and education in the fields of Agronomy, Food Technology and Forestry.

The University of Barcelona is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, in Spain. With 63,000 students, it is one of the biggest universities in Spain. It is one of the oldest universities in both Catalonia and Spain, established in 1450. It is considered one of the best universities in Spain.

The University of Girona (Spanish: Universidad de Girona) is located in the city of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Research at the institution is mainly focused on strategic lines: water science and management, tourism and sustainability. The University of Girona has 12 research institutes, 24 departments and 107 research groups (58 in science, technology and health fields and 49 in the humanities and social sciences).

The University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) is a Catalan university with premises in Vic, Manresa and Granollers. UVic-UCC is ranked as the 3rd best young university in Catalonia and Spain, and 131st in the world according to the Times Higher Education ranking.

The Weizmann Institute of Science is one of the world's leading multidisciplinary basic research institutions in the natural and exact sciences. It is located in Rehovot, Israel, just south of Tel Aviv.

Xiangtan Central Hospital, China, was founded in 1900, and its predecessor was "Huijing Hospital" opened by the American Presbyterian Church. It is the earliest large-scale national tertiary grade A general hospital integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, prevention and health care in Xiangtan City. Meanwhile, it is also the clinical teaching hospital and postgraduate training base of Central South University and University of South China.

Zhejiang University is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League. is consistently ranked among the top 5 academic institutions in mainland China.