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Giulia Menichetti
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Physicist & Network Scientist 👩‍🔬 now diving into the chemical complexity of food
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Mass General Brigham
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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
ai.nejm.org NEJM AI @ai.nejm.org · Sep 30
Review Article by L. Altucci et al.: Artificial Intelligence and Network Medicine: Path to Precision Medicine nejm.ai/4mtEamy

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Figure 1. Biological and Biomedical Challenges Addressed through Integration of Network Medicine and Artificial Intelligence. Figure 2. The Synergistic Relationship between Network Medicine and Artificial Intelligence. Figure 3. Analytical Strategies for Networks of Heterogeneous (Biological) Information.
October 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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📣 🎙️ Recordings from #RiDaysEU: "Making the EU the most attractive place for Life Science" available here 👇
www.youtube.com/live/XWen3QB...

#LifeSciences
#Food2030EU
#OneHealth
#AIforHealth

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September 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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A few shots from “Making the EU the most attractive place for Life Sciences” at the #EU Research & Innovation Days 2025. Looking forward to the next R&I agenda for the food systems! #RiDaysEU @eu-life.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @erc.europa.eu
September 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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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.

Register here 👇
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August 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Thank you, Cassandra, for having me on the Foodie Pharmacology Podcast!
👉 👇 Listen to our chat here 👇 👈
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August 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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🎥 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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www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3UQ...

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McCance Seminar Series: Giulia Menichetti, PhD
YouTube video by MassGeneralHospital
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August 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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This was fun! Today on @koreajoongangdaily.com

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July 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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🧪 Last week @mgbresearch.bsky.social visited our Lab to talk about the “Nutrition Dark Matter” and why food chemistry might matter more than calories.
🔗 Read the Q&A:
mgriblog.org/2025/06/13/n...

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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.
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June 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Happening Today @ Precision Nutrition Forum and PREDIMED Omics Symposium 2025
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June 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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
NUTRITION 2025
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June 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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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/...
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.
May 27, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Reposted by Giulia Menichetti
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Gordana Ispirova, Michael Sebek, Giulia Menichetti
Informatics for Food Processing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17087
May 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted by Giulia Menichetti
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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
May 26, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Reposted by Giulia Menichetti
nejm.org
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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Key points from the Nutrition in Medicine article "Chemical Complexity of Food and Implications for Therapeutics"
May 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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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!
May 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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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nejm.org NEJM.org @nejm.org · May 7
Food contains more than 139,000 molecules, which influence nearly half the human proteome. Systematic analysis of food–chemical interactions can potentially advance nutrition science and drug discovery. Learn more in a new Review Article: nej.md/3EEDtq4

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Nutrition in Medicine Chemical Complexity of Food and Implications for Therapeutics An illustrated table of the overall approach to food molecule research, from Nutrition Dark Matter (NDM) to Food as Medicine.
May 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Today, in Parma, at the heart of the food valley 😉
February 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by Giulia Menichetti
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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
Intervista a Giulia Menichetti: il coraggio di sbagliare per crescere nelle STEM
YouTube video by Fondazione Leonardo
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February 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reposted by Giulia Menichetti
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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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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Reposted by Giulia Menichetti
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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...
January 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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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!
January 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Reposted by Giulia Menichetti
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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 is figure 2, which shows food processing in grocery stores.
January 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Giulia Menichetti
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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.
January 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Reposted by Giulia Menichetti
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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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January 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM