Translational research to identify solutions to the UK's key diet, health and nutrition challenges: The Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club Innovation Hubs.

The author comments on the diet and health Open Innovation Research Club (OIRC) innovation hubs designed to identify solutions to the key diet, health and nutrition challenges facing the United Kingdom. Cited are how the innovation hubs will reinvigorate and strengthen nutrition research, how the hubs are structured to engage the food industry in recognition of their role in progressing shared challenges, and the innovative opportunity the hubs provide to advance nutrition research.