Faculty-Nipun Saini, PhD

Nipun Saini, PhD Assistant Professor of Nutrition Biography Team Publications News nipun_saini@unc.edu704-250-5065 Dr. Saini’s research interest is to understand the metabolic adaptations that occur in the mother and fetus to support a healthy pregnancy, and how...
Faculty Focus: Sandra Mooney, PhD

Faculty Focus: Sandra Mooney, PhD

by Priscilla O’Neil Sandra M. Mooney, PhD, specializes in brain development or developmental neurobiology. Her work is specific to how nutrition and alcohol affect brain development and whether that changes behavior. Current studies explore how nutritional needs...
Just the Facts

Just the Facts

This story originally appeared on the UNC Gillings School of Public Health website. by George Spencer illustrations by Haley Hodges ’19 Andy Warhol never met William Hubbard or Jerry Mande, MPH ’83 (nutrition). But the pop artist who turned soup can labels into art...

FDC Speakers

Future Directions of Choline FDC Home Agenda Lodging Speakers Victoria Adams PhD Candidate, NC State University The Kennedy lab focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of adaptive and innate immunity during metabolic diseases. Specifically, identifying and...
Epidemiology: The story of disease.

Epidemiology: The story of disease.

Every good story includes the “5 Ws”: who, what, where, when, and why. In studying how disease begins and remains in a population, we’re writing the story of that disease, and we use the same technique. Understanding the various approaches to the “5 Ws” of a given...