June 7, 2021 | May News, News
Congratulations to Julie Hasken, the Nutrition Research Institute’s newest PhD! Julie earned her doctorate from the UNC Chapel Hill Department of Nutrition in 2021 and is now a postdoctoral research associate with Dr. Philip May. Julie joined the NRI in 2012 as a...
June 1, 2021 | Hursting News, News, Zeisel News
Stephen Hursting, PhD, can still remember visiting Carolina for the first time before beginning his graduate studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. “I came on a beautiful, sunny spring day. It was 1982 and UNC had just won the [NCAA] National Championship on Michael Jordan’s...
April 19, 2021 | News, Zeisel News
By Amanda Wicks University Communications UNC-Chapel Hill Image by Robert Singh Photography Dr. Steven Zeisel will be stepping down as the UNC Nutrition Research Institute’s director after 13 years, but he leaves behind a legacy that has helped shape a more...
March 25, 2021 | News, pub-smith, Smith News
One of the barriers to translating research results from pre-clinical to clinical is when positive results seen in animal models fail to be apparent in humans. Many early-stage studies use a single mouse strain. These mice are genetically homogeneous, and while this...
February 18, 2021 | Brain Health, Mooney News, News, Precision Nutrition, pub-mooney, pub-mooney-environment
While the best defense against fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) remains avoiding alcohol consumption during pregnancy, research has shown that dietary choline supplementation can reduce at least some of the cognitive and behavioral problems associated with FASD...
January 25, 2021 | Brain Health, News, Precision Nutrition, Symposium
Our brains are built and supported by our mothers’ diets and then, by our diets. An individual’s response to incoming nutrition is programmed and very individualized. Maternal nutrition is important for fetal development even before conception: We now know that...
