Support Why donate to one cause when you can combat five of the leading causes of American deaths? By donating to the Nutrition Research Institute, your money targets the root of most American disease. There are more than 1.4 million preventable deaths in the United...
Make a Gift Now Research Cores The NRI houses research cores that offer a wide range of services to researchers. Cores offer shared resources, including cutting-edge technologies, high-end instrumentation, technical support, and education. Our cores are committed to...
Make a Gift Now Research We Develop Precision Nutrition At the NRI, we study why metabolism and nutrient requirements differ from person to person. Our scientists develop and apply cutting-edge methods to understand nutrient metabolism and its relationship to human...
Make a Gift Now Clinical Research Core The Clinical Research Core (CRC) provides human nutrition research investigators with multi-disciplinary services and equipment in one location. The core is complete with examination rooms and equipment, phlebotomy and processing...
Faculty Directory Deborah Tate, PhD Interim Director, Professor of Nutrition Behavioral weight management particularly delivered through web and mobile platforms dtate@unc.edu(919) 966-7546 Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH Professor of Nutrition Diet-gene interaction...
Make a Gift Now Environment and Nutrition Beginning at conception, environmental factors in health can accumulate over a lifetime and be from sources as broad as geographic location and economic status to specific external sources including physical activity,...
Make a Gift Now Genes and Nutrition Each of us is metabolically unique. Gene variations known as SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) often are a factor in an individual’s ability to metabolize or use nutrients efficiently. Each of our specific nutrient needs is...
Make a Gift Now Microbiome and Nutrition The complex community of bacteria, yeasts and viruses living in our intestines, collectively known as the gut microbiome, is shaped, in part, by what we eat. Genetics, environment, and other factors also influence an...
