Aston University and BioCare partner to develop AI-powered personalized nutrition app

Aston UniversityJan 22 2026Aston University and BioCare Ltd are working together to create a unique AI-powered digital health tool that can deliver personalized nutritional and lifestyle advice by analyzing data from health tests and questionnaires.Along with ongoing support, the app will empower its users to make long-term and lasting improvements to their health and wellbeing.The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) will bring together Aston University’s experts in AI, machine learning, and digital health technologies with the team at Birmingham-based BioCare.. The company is an international provider of nutritional supplements, professional guidance, and training for health and wellbeing practitioners. It currently offers guidance through its own model, called ‘Adaptive Health’. This identifies the unique genetic, physiological and environmental factors that need to be considered when making tailored nutritional recommendations to individuals.To support the company’s growth, the KTP project will digitize and evolve this model, moving it from a paper-based practitioner-led approach to an AI-powered digital system that can be accessed by its own customers, nutritional advisors and their clients.Achieving this in a digital app means incorporating AI and machine learning in ways that analyse several different types of data to build a complete digital picture of an individual’s health. It will bring together personalized health information from tests and details of habits, preferences and goals from tailored questionnaires.The technology will be designed to provide more personalized recommendations about diet, lifestyle and supplement recommendations than are currently possible through the company’s existing model.Crucially, the resulting app will be developed to strike a balance between supporting, rather than replacing, professional health and well-being advice.BioCare will work on the three-year KTP with researchers in the Aston Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Application (ACAIRA). The Centre brings together expertise from several academic disciplines with industry partners to create new AI-powered technologies for some of the world’s biggest health, social and environmental challenges, while ensuring those technologies are sustainable, ethical and equitable.. . Our goal is to develop a highly personalized digital health tool that will be central to, and valuable for, every individual customer, enhancing both their experience of nutritional support and their long-term wellbeing. Partnering with Aston University in a project like this provides unparalleled opportunities for mutual learning, as well as enhancing the credibility and robustness of the new technology we’re developing.”. Emma Ellis, managing director at BioCare. . Dr Harry Goldingay, senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies, and member of ACAIRA, said: “This project is about building technology that can look far Read More