Dr. Steven H. Zeisel, UNC NRI Director, will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, “Choline and Optimal Development”, through a Grand Challenges Explorations grant awarded by the Bill & Melina Gates Foundation.
Dr. Carol Cheatham, developmental cognitive neuroscientist with the NRI, is a featured expert with an international public education campaign. Sponsored by Abbott Nutrition, the makers of Similac infant formula, the campaign was designed to promote awareness of proper nutrition for pregnant women in Vietnam and Singapore.