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Our research not only influences the scientific community, but the general public as well. We strive to share our discoveries with everyone. Read some of our latest articles on what is happening at the Nutrition Research Institute.
Your Parents and Your Diet
Brian Bennett, Ph.D. discusses how genetics and diet relate to cardiovascular risk.
Managing Your Weight, What Really Works?
Deborah Tate, Ph.D. discusses ways to manage your weight effectively.
Heritable Effects of Diet
Folami Ideraabdullah, Ph.D. speaks about becoming what our parents eat.
Families Matter
Myles Faith, Ph.D. speaks about lifestyle strategies for obesity prevention that start at home.
Saroja Voruganti, Ph.D.
Saroja Voruganti, Ph.D., joined the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) in 2013 as assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Voruganti’s research investigates how genetic and environmental (particularly diet and nutrients) factors...
Dr. Mihai Niculescu
Dr. Mihai Niculescu joined the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) team in 2008 to study how maternal obesity influences children’s health in the long term. Niculescu specializes in the study of epigenetics and nutrition, which help to explain how diet sets the...
Philip May Ph.D.
Philip A. May, PhD, joined the NRI in 2011 as Research Professor. He is an expert in the field of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and the epidemiology of a number of health-related behaviors. Dr. May has conducted extensive research on the epidemiology and...
Martin Kohlmeier, MD, PhD
Joining the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) in 2010, Dr. Martin Kohlmeier serves as faculty and primary investigator in the NRI Nutrigenetics Laboratory. He focuses on laboratory diagnostics and nutritional genetics. With more than thirty years of experience in...
Folami Ideraabdullah, Ph.D.
Folami Ideraabdullah, Ph.D., joined the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) in 2013 as assistant professor of genetics in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Dr. Ideraabdullah joined the NRI to expand her research program in genetics to study the role of...