Featured Research Projects

Better Food, Health, and Nutrition for People and Animals

Alcohol and Breast Cancer
Tracing the Origins of Breast Cancer

Project Leaders:
Wendie Cohick and Dipak Sarkar

Controlling Fat Production in Cells
Holding the Promise of a Treatment for Obesity?

Project Leader:
George Carman

Endocrine Program
Research Could Lead to Therapeutic Applications

Project Leader:
Dipak Sarkar

Genes Don't Tell the Whole Story
Grandparents’ Environment Affects Epigenome, Which May Also Affect You

Project Leader:
Mehmet Uzumcu

Nature's Health-Promoting Products
Probiotics Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance

Project Leader:
Michael Chikindas

Understanding a Metabolism Disorder
A Rare Disease Could Lead to a New Understanding of Fat Metabolism

Project Leader:
Dawn Brasaemle

Weight Loss, Biochemistry, and Osteoporosis
The Surprising Connection Between Bones, Fat, and Nutrition

Project Leader:
Sue Shapses

Young Minds Meet Young Horses
Project Trains Future Scientists and Improves Equine Health

Project Leader:
Sarah Ralston