Giulia Menichetti

Happy to share our recent review in
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summarizing the discussions from the master class “Artificial Intelligence and Network Medicine: Path to Precision Medicine”, sponsored by the #Menarini Foundation last year in Milan

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Join us for the European Research & Innovation Days 2025 (16–17 Sept, Brussels & online). I will be speaking at the plenary “Making the EU the Most Attractive Place for Life Sciences.

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Thank you, Cassandra, for having me on the Foodie Pharmacology Podcast!
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YouTube video by MassGeneralHospital McCance Seminar Series: Giulia Menichetti, PhD

🎥 My recent talk "AI for Food Processing" is now available online as part of the Mass General McCance Center for Brain Health Seminar Series.

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This was fun! Today on @koreajoongangdaily.com

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Sure :) This was for general audience

Nutrition Dark Matter, Ultraprocessed Foods and the Chemical Complexity of What We Eat Nutrition dark matter refers to the 139,000+ compounds in foods that researchers are just beginning to learn more about.

🧪 Last week @mgbresearch.bsky.social visited our Lab to talk about the “Nutrition Dark Matter” and why food chemistry might matter more than calories.
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Happening Today @ Precision Nutrition Forum and PREDIMED Omics Symposium 2025
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🫵 Check Bonnie's Poster Today at #Nutrition2025
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"Associations of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids With Smoking-Related Epigenetic Alterations" cdmcd.co/d6mPBa

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Example instance from the Open Food Facts dataset used in the training of the predictive models. The product name, ingredient list, and full nutrient panel (not fully shown here) are used to construct the input sentences for the LLM-based models. The nutrient panel shown includes the 11 nutrients used to train the FoodProX-based models. The last two quantitative indicators are used in the explanatory models. The number of additives is also included as an additional feature in one variant of the FoodProX model.

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑?
We looked for answers through data science. Using multimodal AI models, we show the opportunities and limitations of current approaches.
📄 Read: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087
💻 Code: github.com/menicgiulia/...

Gordana Ispirova, Michael Sebek, Giulia Menichetti
Informatics for Food Processing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087

Gordana Ispirova, Michael Sebek, Giulia Menichetti: Informatics for Food Processing https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17087 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.17087

Key points from the Nutrition in Medicine article "Chemical Complexity of Food and Implications for Therapeutics"

Nutrition in Medicine article by Giulia Menichetti, PhD, Albert-László Barabási, PhD, and Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD: Chemical Complexity of Food and Implications for Therapeutics nej.md/3EEDtq4

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Beautiful work from Salvo, who joined our Lab this April. Looking forward to mapping how food molecules modulate our health together!

Interactive graphics available at www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Incredibly honored to see our work featured in the New England Journal of Medicine. Grateful to an outstanding team and collaborators who made this possible. A milestone we’ll never forget.
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Today, in Parma, at the heart of the food valley 😉

YouTube video by Fondazione Leonardo Intervista a Giulia Menichetti: il coraggio di sbagliare per crescere nelle STEM

Thank you, Ilaria Iacoviello , for the great interview & your commitment to science! And to Fondazione Leonardo for making it possible. As for @menicgiulia.bsky.social , hearing her say these things fills me with pride every day. youtu.be/SkHrAXtvGXc

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

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There's a wide range of "ultra-processed foods." A recent Nature Foods paper zoomed in on this www.nature.com/articles/s43... and the graph rankings are shown below from @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whic...

Thank you to Dr. Bruce Levy & the 2024 Chair’s Research Award organizers for a fantastic event! Transitioning from physics to medical research has been a journey made possible by a culture of mentorship & support. Grateful to Dr. Dawn DeMeo, my 'medicine teacher.' Congrats to all awardees!

This is figure 2, which shows food processing in grocery stores.

A paper in Nature Food presents GroceryDB, a dataset with more than 50,000 food items sold at major grocery stores in the US that uses big data to provide information on processing—categorized by store, food category and price range. https://go.nature.com/3E7DMZu 🔒

This seems to be a very practical
resource. Love it. Important as the body of evidence linking consumption of ultra processed foods to adverse health outcomes is increasingly robust.

How processed is your food? A new database from MGB can help you find out A new database from Mass General Brigham launched Monday with the nutritional value and "processing scores" for more than 50,000 foods available at Target, Whole Foods and Walmart. Here’s how it works...

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Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores - Nature Food Information on the degree of processing of food items is key for better consumer choices. GroceryDB is a dataset with more than 50,000 food items sold at major grocery stores in the United States that...

Over 50,000 food items, 1,000+ ingredients analyzed, and one mission: helping you choose less processed foods, highlighted in Nature Food: 🍎🛒
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www.nature.com/articles/s43...