Health and Nutrition

Feeding and healing the world's growing, shifting population is a growing, shifting challenge. In addition to the basic need for safer and healthier foods and medicines, clear trends are emerging: new medicines will need new delivery systems; foods and cosmetics will play a key role in wellness, prevention and treatment of disease; and consumers' choices in adopting and using these products are as important as the products' ingredients and form.

Lux Research's analysts identify and evaluate emerging technologies in many areas of human wellness, giving our clients an early view of opportunities for corporations, investors, and governments. In pharmaceutical and medical devices, food and beverages, personal care products, and agricultural chemicals, we cover:

• Formulation and Delivery: delivery of active molecules in drugs, foods, and other consumer products; novel delivery devices, controlled-release materials
• Bio-based Materials and Chemicals: renewable materials for products and packaging, food ingredients from algae and other novel sources, active molecules from synthetic organisms, bioremediation
• Printed, Flexible, and Organic Electronics: Sensors, smart packaging
• Advanced Materials: Barrier films and other packaging materials; antimicrobial and easy-to-clean coatings
• Water: filtration, desalinization, remediation, water management, wastewater treatment
• China BioPharma: vaccines, animal health, agbio, drug development platforms, nutrition

Our clients in health and nutrition are among the largest and most innovative global firms in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, personal care, nutrition, and agricultural biotechnology.