Institute News

Jul 31, 2020

Lila recognized with Babcock-Hart Award

Jul 10, 2020

Marvin Moncada joins NC State’s efforts to advance plant-based foods.

Jan 15, 2020

Starting the Year Off with a “BAM”

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – NC State University’s Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI) is kicking off 2020 with the start of its first clinical research trial, the Blueberry Absorption Metabolism study, or “BAM.”… 

Dec 3, 2019

PHHI team lands $12.8 Million to improve fruit quality of Blueberry and Cranberry

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – With a long-term goal of improving blueberry and cranberry based on producer and consumer interests, NC State University scientists, Massimo Iorizzo, Mary Ann Lila and Penelope Perkins-Veazie, were… 

Oct 7, 2019

How Epigenetics Could Change How We Grow Food

To understand epigenetics, nutrition, and the work of Dr. Tzung-Fu Hsieh, it helps to begin long before he was even born, back during World War II. In fall of 1944,… 

Aug 9, 2019

A Nutritional Shift: This Metabolome Library Might Change Our Understanding of Food and Health

How do foods cause, prevent, or manage disease? Which ones are the most helpful? Our understanding of the connections between food and health has been fairly rudimentary. It’s involved reverse… 

Jun 20, 2019

Can a healthy diet combat the effects of pollution?

A diesel engine isn’t a typical piece of equipment found in a biology lab. But it’s just one of the unique lab instruments in the environmental toxicology lab of Giuseppe… 

May 16, 2019

New Faculty: Andrew Neilson

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – The interaction of the gut microbiome with human health is an emerging field in biology, nutrition and medicine.  With the addition of Andrew Neilson, Ph.D., NC State University’s Plants for Human… 

Apr 12, 2019

New Faculty: Abdulkerim Eroğlu

Abdulkerim “Kerim” Eroğlu, PhD, set up his nutrigenomics lab at the NC Research Campus in August 2018 when he joined the Plants for Human Health Institute. He was featured in… 

Feb 14, 2018

FFAR Awards $1 Million Grant to Improve Health through Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

WASHINGTON, February 13, 2018 –  The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), a nonprofit established in the 2014 Farm Bill with bipartisan congressional support, awarded a $1 million Seeding Solutions…