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August 2020

What I Learned About Nutrition Risks for COVID-19  July 30, 2020 – by Martin Kohlmeier, MD, PhD I am just reading that the Director-General of the World Health Association, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing that the Covid-19 pandemic "is not even close to...

July 2020

Voruganti to Advance Research on Childhood Obesity with NIH Grant  June 30, 2020 – NRI principal investigator Saroja Voruganti, PhD, has received a 2020 Cross Border Collaboration Award from the Center for Global Health Studies (CGHS) at the National Institutes of...

June 2020

Fighting Vitamin D Deficiency May Lower Risk of Contracting COVID-19 Especially among Common High-risk Groups  May 30, 2020 – Vitamin D deficiency impedes good immune function and has been shown to contribute to the seasonal increase of viral respiratory infections,...

May 2020

Natalia Krupenko, PhD, Promoted to Associate Professor of Nutrition  April 30, 2020 – Natalia Krupenko, PhD, has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Nutrition Research...

April 2020

Managing in an Uncertain Time  March 30, 2020 – As the novel coronavirus COVID-19 affects all our lives, we at the Nutrition Research Institute are taking every measure to flatten the curve of infection by strictly following guidelines set down by the University, our...

A Nutrigenetic Study of Purine Metabolism and Cognitive Function

Nutrigenetic research at the NRI often focuses on brain development and health across the lifespan. Recently, faculty members Carol Cheatham, PhD, and Saroja Voruganti, PhD, received a supplemental grant from the National Institute of Aging (NIA), a division of the...

What I Learned About Nutrition Risks for COVID-19

This blog post was originally published on BMJ Journals - COVID-19 on July 3, 2020. Martin Kohlmeier, MD, PhD Review by Shane McAuliffe RD and Prof Sumantra (Shumone) Ray on behalf of the NNEdPro Nutrition & Covid-19 Taskforce I am just reading that the...

Voruganti to Advance Research on Childhood Obesity with NIH Grant

NRI principal investigator Saroja Voruganti, PhD, has received a 2020 Cross Border Collaboration Award from the Center for Global Health Studies (CGHS) at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Fogarty International Center (FIC). The awards support research...