Faculty Directory
Our faculty bring together expertise in nutrition, genetics, metabolism, behavior, and public health to advance precision nutrition research and improve health across the lifespan.
Meet Our Faculty
Deborah Tate, PhD
Director, Professor of Nutrition and Health Behavior
Precision, technology-enabled interventions to improve cardiometabolic health
John Batsis, MD
CRC Medical Director, Associate Professor of Medicine and Nutrition
Healthy aging and obesity interventions to improve physical function and quality of life in older adults.
Carol L. Cheatham, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
Nutrition for memory and attention abilities
Rachel Goode, PhD, MPH, LCSW
Associate Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry
Nutrition interventions to promote health equity and to treat obesity
Natalia Krupenko, PhD
Associate Professor of Nutrition
Role of folate in promoting health and preventing disease
Sergey A. Krupenko, PhD
Professor of Nutrition
Vitamin folate and its role in liver function and cancer
Katie Meyer, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor of Nutrition
Nutritional and Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiologist
Sandra M. Mooney, PhD
Associate Professor of Nutrition
Effect(s) of environment and genes on brain development
Wimal Pathmasiri, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nutrition
Impact of diet on gut microbiome related metabolism
Blake Rushing, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nutrition
Multi-omics approaches for precision oncology/health
Nipun Saini, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nutrition
How stressors impair fetal growth and brain development
Susan M. Smith, PhD
Dickson Foundation – Harris Teeter Distinguished Professor of Nutrition
Molecular mechanisms by which dietary components affect prenatal development
Isis Trujillo-Gonzalez, PhD
Assistant Professor of Nutrition
Mechanisms linking choline status and neurodevelopment in health and disease states.
Saroja Voruganti, PhD
CRC Director, Professor of Nutrition
Impact of nutrient-gene interactions on purine metabolism and related diseases
Steven H. Zeisel, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Pediatrics, Founding Director of the NRI
Choline as an essential nutrient
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