July 15, 2014 | Community News, News, Zeisel News
Tuesday, July 15, WFAE’s Charlotte Talks welcomed a panel of experts including NRI director Steven Zeisel, M.D., Ph.D. to discuss personalized medicine.
July 14, 2014 | Community News, Kohlmeier, News, Zeisel News
The NRI’s Martin Kohlmeier, M.D., Ph.D., research professor in nutrition, is championing worldwide nutrition education that bridges the gap between the bench, physician exam rooms and the kitchen table.
July 11, 2014 | Community News, News, Zeisel News
Nutrition may be key to some male infertility. NRI’s researcher Summer Goodson is investigating. Her study, seeking participants, was featured in the Health column in the Charlotte Observer in July 2014.
June 30, 2014 | Kohlmeier, Uncategorized, Zeisel News
Researchers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) are filling a much needed gap for students in medical schools around the world with its Nutrition in Medicine curriculum. The curriculum centers on an initiative to bring...
June 30, 2014 | science in action
The UNC NRI is home to one of the few metabolic chambers (whole room calorimeters) in the country and to the only one in the sate of North Carolina. This unique tool offers the most accurate way available to assess metabolism because it measures energy expenditure...
June 30, 2014 | science in action
An epigenetic study conducted by NRI scientist Mihai Niculescu, M.D., Ph.D., shows that in mice, maternal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation can have a significant impact upon the offspring’s ability to use its own nutrients during early life....
June 30, 2014 | science in action
An $8.9 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is allowing NRI scientist Philip May, Ph.D., to examine the prevalence and characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in the United...
June 30, 2014 | science in action, Zeisel News
Fifteen of every hundred couples in the world who want to have children find it difficult or impossible to conceive. In about half those couples, the difficulty results from the male partner’s fertility. Now researchers at UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI),...
