PROGRAMME

Please follow our journey with the programme for the IVC 2025 here. Below you will find the titles of the sessions.

25 August - Monday

SESSION 1: Vitamin supply and bioavailability from alternative diets

The Vitamin Equation: Ensuring Adequate Intake on Plant-Rich Diets

Speaker: Susanne Bügel, University of Copenhagen: 

SESSION 2: Choline –sources, functions, requirements

Physiology and Functions of Choline

Speaker: Isis Trujillo, University of North Carolina

CONFERENCE DINNER

Facility to be confirmed.

26 August - Tuesday

SESSION 3: Vitamin and drug interaction in disease prevention and therapy

Vitamin C in leukemia

Speaker: Jens Lykkesfeldt, University of Copenhagen

Folate for risk reduction of birth defects: Spotlight on women exposed to therapeutics

Speaker: Rima Obeid, University Saarland

Update of vitamin D in critically ill people

Speaker Karin Amrein, University Graz

SESSION 4: Vitamins in foods – analytical challenges and novel approaches

Current data for Vitamin B12 and Vitamin E

Speaker: Marc Birringer, Fulda University, Germany

Challenges to support nutritional composition data and regulatory compliance

Speaker: Jette Jakobsen, Technical University of Denmark

POSTER SESSION

To take place at the conference venue incl. meal and beverages combined with poster presentations. 

27 August - Wednesday

SESSION 5: Bioavailability of vitamins including pharmacokinetics and novel biomarkers

Novel stable isotope approaches to assess folate bioavailability

Speaker: Michael Rychlik, Technical University of Munich

Unlocking micronutrients: Understanding and enhancing bioavailability

Speaker: Dr. Szabi PÉTER, DSM-Firmenich

Nicotinamide (vitamin B3) interventions in Alzheimer’s disease

Speaker Gregory J Brewer, UC Irvine, California

SESSION 6: Emerging topics and data gaps in vitamin research

Impact of lifestyle diets on vitamin intake and health

Speaker: Manfred Eggersdorfer, Switzerland

Vitamins in wound healing

Speaker: Michiel Balvers, Wageningen University

FINAL PART
Ceremony for the host for 9th International Vitamin Conference in 2027