New Insights into Weight Loss Medications and Their Impact on Breast Cancer Risk

August 29, 2024 | Hursting News, News

This article originally appeared on OncLive.com.  Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH, professor, Department of Nutrition, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, and professor of nutrition, UNC Nutrition Research Institute,...

Week 1: January 5-11

August 29, 2024 | HONOR Trial

The HONOR Trial (IRB# 22-2237) is a medication-free research study being held by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This study is testing a digital intervention that may help you improve your type 2 diabetes management and eating behavior. Participants...

HONOR Trial

August 10, 2024

Home Meet Us Lab News Resources Contact NRI HONOR TRIAL The HONOR Trial (IRB# 22-2237) is a medication-free research study being held by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This study is testing a digital intervention that may help you improve your type 2...

Rachel W. Goode, PhD, MPH, LCSW, Promoted to Associate Professor of Social Work

June 28, 2024 | Goode News, News

Rachel W. Goode, PhD, MPH, LCSW has been promoted to Associate Professor of Social Work at the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her promotion also encompasses her work at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) where Goode’s...

Grant Award Fuels NRI Postdoc’s Mission to Prevent Childhood Obesity

June 19, 2024 | Goode News, News

Paola Campos, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the Goode Lab at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, has been awarded a grant from SPLENDOR-NC (Supporting, Promoting, and Launching the Expansion of Nutrition, Diabetes, and Obesity Researchers in North...

Empowering health through nutrition

June 7, 2024 | News

This article originally appeared in Carolina Public Health Magazine. Just shy of two hours away from Chapel Hill, the former textile town of Kannapolis is home to a state-of-the-art research center where Gillings School faculty, along with colleagues from across UNC,...

Fish Oil and Beyond: Investigating Dietary Interventions for Alzheimer’s Disease with Dr. Naïma Moustaïd-Moussa

May 17, 2024 | News

We were honored to host Naïma Moustaïd-Moussa, PhD, FTOS, FAHA, a Horn Distinguished Professor of Nutritional Sciences and director of the Obesity Research Institute at Texas Tech University, as the keynote speaker at our biannual NGx short course. Her research...

The UNC Nutrition Research Institute welcomes Deborah Tate, PhD, as interim director

April 3, 2024 | News, Tate News

Deborah F. Tate, PhD, became interim director of the UNC Nutrition Research Institute on April 1, having been named by Vice Chancellor for Research Penny Gordon-Larsen. Tate follows Stephen D. Hursting, PhD, MPH, who served the NRI as director from 2021 to 2024....