Explore the programs and courses offered by Nutrition and Pathology
Browse Programs Admission InformationThe specific objective of this master’s degree is to give the student a high-level education aimed at training senior managers in the field of Nutrition, Food Sciences and Health. Students will also be familiar with the environment of research and development in the agri-food sector, public health, pharmaceutical, biotechnology; in the fields of food and health, food supplements and herbal products.
The acquired knowledge: The Master Nutrition and Pathology is developed to allow the acquisition of fundamental and technical bases through in-depth teaching in Human Nutrition, Metabolism and physiology of regulation, nutritional physiopathologies, nutrition and immunity, nutrigenomics, cellular pharmacology, molecular biology, the role of nutraceuticals in health and nutritional and therapeutic value of phytomicronutrients in the prevention of current frequent chronic pathologies.
The course of this master’s degree allows students to acquire solid knowledge in nutrition that enables them to critically approach research topics related to nutrition and pathology , to advise a preventive or specific health food for a given pathology and to develop a targeted food for a given physiological situation. This course also allows a continuation in specialized doctoral thesis to integrate research organizations.
Core courses are designed to provide students with the fundamentals. They generally cover the essential concepts needed to understand the basic principles of the discipline. Here are some examples of topics covered in core courses:
1. Nutrition, metabolism and physiology: Know the nutritional needs and intakes in physiological and pathological cases.
2. Food behaviour: Understanding the organoleptic characteristics of foods that are one of the major determinants of food choices and behaviours.
3. Nutraceuticals and Health: The teaching aims to give students knowledge about new healthy foods such as nutraceuticals, functional foods and their role in preventing chronic diseases.
4. Nutritional Toxicology: Nutritional Toxicology studies the toxic molecule-food couple for food safety.
5. Nutritional epidemiology: Introduce the basic notions of nutrition necessary for the conduct of epidemiological surveys (food, nutrients, energy need and intake, anthropometric measures, biomarkers) and the assessment of the impact of nutritional supplements or complex nutritional interventions on health.
6. Nutritional status assessment techniques: To know the characteristics of screening patients at nutritional risk for early detection of malnutrition. Know the pros and cons of different tools used for nutritional assessment. Know the techniques of anthropometric measurements allowing the measurement of body composition in clinical practice.
Advanced topics delve deeper into the concepts and techniques presented in core courses and introduce more specialized areas. Here are some examples of advanced topics:
- Metabolism and physiology of regulation: study of metabolic processes and the regulation of metabolic flows that ensure the homeostasis of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, hydromineral and vitaminic according to the different physiological conditions in which the organism may be found.
- Bioinformatics: provide basic training to students in the field of research in genomic and proteomics bioinformatics using computer tools in biology for the analysis of biomolecular sequences.
- Nutritional and metabolic physiopathology: The teaching aims to give students preparing for research theoretical knowledge on the causes of chronic diseases related to diet and therapeutic diets.
- Neurodigestive physiopathology: Knowledge of energy and nutritional requirements, intestinal physiology, neuroendocrine regulation, and the pathophysiology of chronic bowel disease.
- Renal Pathophysiology and Nutrition: Acquisition of knowledge on renal pathophysiology and different diets.
- Biostatistics: Allow the student to learn about methods of statistical analysis of biological data.