May 11, 2023 | News, Zeisel News
NRI’s founding director, Steven H. Zeisel, MD, PhD, is among the 2023 Senior Investigator Awards winners named by the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) and the ASN Foundation. The category is one of several Scientific Achievement Awards bestowed annually by ASN....
December 2, 2022 | News, Precision Nutrition, Zeisel News
Variation in how individuals metabolize nutrients (i.e., metabolic heterogeneity) influences our nutritional requirements, so the ideal diet for one person may be different from the ideal diet for some one else. The scientific area of study that encompasses metabolic...
June 17, 2021 | News, Trujillo News, Zeisel News
By Olivia Rivera June 15th, 2021 Health UNC Nutrition Research Institute assistant professor Isis Trujillo studies choline, an essential nutrient that is critical for brain development in the womb. A former postdoctoral researcher, she now runs her own lab and is...
June 14, 2021 | Kohlmeier News, News, Zeisel News
The nation’s top researchers in science and health met from June 7-10 for Nutrition Live Online 2021, the American Society for Nutrition’s flagship conference. #NutritionLiveOnline brought together the greatest minds in nutrition – including Nutrition Research...
June 1, 2021 | News, news-hursting, 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...
