Research Projects

In recent years, investigators with the Center for Human Nutrition have worked on a number of notable projects that fit the general research theme of the Center – metabolic syndrome – while maintaining independent specialties for each. These projects include:

• American Heart Association
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• Diet Responsiveness
• Food and Nutrition Board
• Genetic Epidemiology of the Metabolic Syndrome (GEMS) project
• Human Genetics Project
• Insulin Resistance Project
• Metabolic Syndrome
• National Cholesterol Education Program
• Reynolds Project
• Treatment of high cholesterol and high triglycerides
• Lipodystrophy

Information about additional recent and ongoing CHN research efforts can be found by reviewing the Publications area on the profile pages of our various distinguished faculty, or scan Center Publications for each year since 1991.