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OBEClust: joining forces to prevent obesity

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Despite progress in obesity treatment, prevention remains the best option to avoid associated comorbidities. The European Cluster of Obesity Research Projects (OBEClust) is a pan-European multidisciplinary network of obesity experts, linked to nine European Union-funded projects, aiming to enhance the collective effect of obesity research in Europe, with an emphasis on prevention.

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The projects that comprise OBEClust are supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. BETTER4U: grant agreement 101080117. BIO-STREAMS: grant agreement 101080718. CoDiet: grant agreement 101084642, research activities taking place at Imperial College London and the University of Nottingham are supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee. eprObes: grant agreement 101080219. HealthyW8: grant agreement 101080645. PAS GRAS: grant agreement 101080329. SHIFT2HEALTH: grant agreement 101080788. OBCT: grant agreement 101080250. Obelisk: grant agreement 101080465. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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  1. Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

    Manuel Tena-Sempere

  2. Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC), Córdoba, Spain

    Manuel Tena-Sempere

  3. CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Córdoba, Spain

    Manuel Tena-Sempere

  4. Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Athens, Greece

    Dimitrios-Dionyssios Koutsouris

  5. Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    George Dedoussis

  6. Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Jeroen Lakerveld

  7. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Karl-Heinz Wagner

  8. Research Platform Active Aging, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Karl-Heinz Wagner

  9. AZTI, Food Research, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Derio, Spain

    Itziar Tueros

  10. Université de Lille, Inserm UMR1283, CNRS UMR8199, European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID), Institut Pasteur de Lille, University Hospital, Lille, France

    Philippe Froguel

  11. Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Philippe Froguel

  12. Nutrition and Health Research Group, Department of Precision Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Strassen, Luxembourg

    Torsten Bohn

  13. CNC-UC, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Paulo J. Oliveira

  14. CIBB, Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Paulo J. Oliveira

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Tena-Sempere, M., Koutsouris, DD., Dedoussis, G. et al. OBEClust: joining forces to prevent obesity. Nat Rev Endocrinol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-025-01212-x

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