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We lead the field of Precision Nutrition research by applying advanced scientific methods for understanding individual requirements for and responses to nutrients.

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December 12, 2025 Your support helps us train the next generation of scientists, uncover how nutrition shapes lifelong health, and bring research from the lab to real-world impact. Read More Science moves forward through partnership. Watch our new video and hear directly from scientists, students, and staff who make discovery possible every day. Be Our Partner

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Inside Your Cells: How Diet Shapes Metabolic Function

Dec 18, 2025

Inside Your Cells: How Diet Shapes Metabolic FunctionSaroja Voruganti, PhD, Professor of Nutrition, continues her work building a nationally and internationally recognized research program in nutritional genomics at UNC. She is the co-Director of Precision...

You can shape the future of nutrition research

Dec 12, 2025

Your support helps us train the next generation of scientists, uncover how nutrition shapes lifelong health, and bring research from the lab to real-world impact.

Choline, GLP-1s, and the Future of Precision Nutrition

Dec 4, 2025

When researchers move beyond a one-size-fits-all approach and engage families as true partners, they can design interventions that reflect real experiences and lead to meaningful, lasting change.

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Research that transforms lives.PUBLICATIONS FROM OUR RESEARCHERS

	Bladder CancerDifferential Expression of One‐Carbon Pathway Enzyme ALDH1L1 Is Linked to Tumorigenicity of Low‐Grade Bladder Cancer Cells Through Metabolic Reprogramming (Read more)
	Pesticide ExposurePrenatal Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Targeted Maternal Pregnancy Metabolomic Profiles in the NYU CHES Cohort (Read More)
	Diet and MetabolitesBody Mass Index Modifies Associations Between Diet Quality and Circulating Metabolites: The CARDIA Study, 2005 to 2006 (Read More)
	Prenatal NutritionPrenatal Choline Attenuates the Elevated Adiposity and Glucose Intolerance Caused by Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (Read More)
	Lung CancerProbing the metabolic regulator and candidate tumor suppressor ALDH1L1 as a target for non-small cell lung cancer gene therapy (Read More)

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The NRI is a center for precision nutrition training through programs for graduate and medical students, post-doctoral trainees, faculty, practicing physicians and other medical providers, registered dietitians, and industry professionals.

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