The 2nd Annual UNC NORC Student Research Symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 from 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM ET. Four prizes of $250 each will be awarded in the following categories: best undergraduate student poster, best … Read more

This year’s theme of Diet and Chronic Unresolved Inflammation: Implications for Obesity-Associated Complications will focus on interdisciplinary and translational approaches in the context of diet and nutrition to effectively prevent and treat chronic inflammation associated with obesity and its associated … Read more

UNC NORC directors at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health will direct both a $13 million NPH Clinical Center (one of six across the United States) and a $19 million Metabolomics and Clinical Assay Center.

Raz Shaikh, PhD, has been named co-director of the UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC). Shaikh is an associate professor and associate chair for research in the Department of Nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and … Read more

At this symposium, participating researchers sought to bridge the gap between human and mouse studies that are commonly used to model the diversity of factors that can lead to the development of obesity. Their findings are now available in an … Read more

Dr. Stephen Hursting has been named the next director of the UNC Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis, N.C.

The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to fund another five years of work providing support and expertise to scientists studying the role of nutrition and obesity in public health.

The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) Pilot & Feasibility (P&F) Program recently received funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) to establish a process designed to increase the number of new investigators from underrepresented … Read more

Funding from the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute and Sanofi will allow the Department of Nutrition to continue research and service projects to study and address the effects of COVID-19 on several nutrition-related issues.