2009

DSM Venturing invests in Viocare, a US-based personalized nutrition and wellness specialist

DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing unit of Royal DSM N.V., today announced that it has invested in Princeton NJ based Viocare Inc. to support its activities in the field of personalized nutrition. Viocare develops sophisticated web-based technologies that analyze dietary and physical activity behavior to generate personalized lifestyle plans for patients and consumers.

Since 1993 Viocare has been delivering scientifically-based products developed in collaboration with leading research institutions, including the National Institutes of Health in the USA and leading universities such as Harvard, Yale, Wake Forest, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most recently, Viocare has entered the corporate wellness market with the release of its VioWell program, a corporatesponsored personalized wellness program for organizations seeking a healthier employee opulation.

2008

Viocare, Inc. and Sarnoff Corporation partner to develop mobile phone based dietary assessment tool for the National Institutes of Health.

2007

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Viocare, Inc. a $3.6 million U01 research grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for the development of a Mobile Food Intake Visualization and Voice Recognizer (FIVR). This is among the first projects to be selected for funding by the new Genes, Environment and Health Initiative (GEI) of the National Institutes of Health. FIVR will use adaptive modeling, vision processing, and voice recognition on cell phones to automatically identify foods and their portion size in real time.

Viocare, Inc. was awarded a SBIR Phase II grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for $1.3 million. This project, Diet Assessment System for Cancer Control Applications (GraFFS), will add portion size images, tailored behavioral feedback, and a set of customization tools to VioScreen.

Viocare, Inc. releases ProNutra version 3.2 with numerous enhancements including subfolders and additional USDA databases.

Dr. David Katz from Yale School of Public Health is the keynote speaker for the Princeton Living Well launch to the Princeton Area businesses. Princeton Living Well, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and developed by Viocare, Inc. is a multifaceted Healthy Lifestyle Project designed to engage the entire community in healthy activities. The grant seeks to demonstrate that a community-wide support network can motivate residents to take steps to improve their dietary habits and increase their physical activity levels. Over 50 local businesses and organizations attended the function hosted at the Princeton Theological Seminary in downtown Princeton, NJ.

Viocare awarded a $750K Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant by NIH's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to extend the innovative VioScreen questionnaire to include "physical activity" and "barriers to change" questionnaires.

2005

Rick Weiss, Viocare President and Founder, wins New Jersey Small Business Development Centers Small Business Success Award for the second time. Only individual to have received a second award.

Viocare awarded an extended Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant of $500K for two years for a Community Web Health Portal for Diabetes Prevention, Princeton Living Well, by NIH's National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.