The mission of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (CNRU):
"To facilitate and promote collaborative and multi-disciplinary interactions that will foster new research ideas and enhance the translation of basic nutritional research findings into the clinical arena and ultimately into practical application."
More specifically, the Pennington CNRU has chosen “Nutritional Programming: Environmental and Molecular Interactions” as a central focus for the CNRU to develop. This focus is based upon emerging interest in epigenetic phenomena, such as how events in prenatal and early postnatal life can influence the risk for the development of obesity and metabolic syndrome in later adulthood.
Basic science and clinical data indicate that an interaction between genes and early life environmental conditions is important in the development of obesity and the different facets of the metabolic syndrome.
Our aim is to focus the CNRU’s efforts around this emerging and important theme. By keeping this tight focus and avoiding too broad an approach, the CNRU is more likely to produce meaningful synergies and expansion of research efforts.
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| Upcoming Conferences and Meetings of Interest: |
| "Role of Genes, Environment and Chance in Determining Aging"
May 30 - June 2, 2008
Millennium Harvest House
Boulder, CO
For more information click here.
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How to acknowledge the CNRU in manuscripts:
Under Acknowledgements add: This work was partially supported by a CNRU Center Grant # 1P30 DK072476 entitled “Nutritional Programming: Environmental and Molecular Interactions” sponsored by NIDDK. |
