The interdisciplinary Graduate Group in Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition (MBN) offers a Ph.D. program which aims to develop scholarship and skills in research, teaching and professional service, and cultivate independent and original thinking. The MBN Program focuses its research on metabolic biology, i.e., the mechanisms of metabolic gene regulation by dietary components, the impact of genetics on molecular responses to diet, and the association of both with chronic disease risk in humans.

We provide interdisciplinary training in the theory and techniques of molecular and biochemical metabolic studies of nutrients and phytochemicals in humans, and mammals that serve as models for humans. This training program in MBN is unique in focus: it is one of the few, or perhaps, the only formal graduate program devoted to the study of metabolism and its regulation in higher vertebrates.

Some of the areas and themes of chronic disease risk that our faculty focuses upon are: diabetes, cancer, obesity, neurological, and cardiovascular. Read more...