# Nutrigenetics, Nutrigenomics and Precision Nutrition

> **NIH NIH R13** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2021 · $13,000

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The fifth workshop on Nutrigenetics, Nutrigenomics, and Precision Nutrition will be held in June from 7-10,
2021, at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, NC. The workshop will be led by Dr. Saroja
Voruganti and is sponsored in part by the University of North Carolina Nutrition Research Institute. This
proposal requests partial offset of registration costs for attendance by graduate students and (depending on
enrollment) postdoctoral and other young researchers. Of the 2016-2019 attendees, over half were students
or young investigators, and over 75% are women. Additionally, half of the expected 2021 presenters (including
the organizer) are women, and four are assistant professors.
Gene-diet interactions can play a major role in health, both through dietary modification of gene expression
(nutrigenomics) and through the effects of individual genetic variation of genes involved in nutrient metabolism
(nutrigenetics) (NGx). Because “NGx” research and application areas span from diet/nutrition to
metabolism/biochemistry to population/computational genetics, it can be difficult for researchers and clinicians
trained in one area to appreciate results emanating from another area. The consequent lack of awareness of
important NGx research impairs translation to clinical practice; likewise, an underappreciation of
clinical/epidemiological findings obfuscates the significance of findings from basic research. The
Nutrigenetics, Nutrigenomics, and Precision Nutrition workshop provides a unique opportunity for attendees
to discover the cutting edge of precision nutrition and to learn how to translate and leverage information
spanning basic research to clinical applications for their own work. The workshop, held in years 2016-2019,
was highly successful and attended by 62 - 93 persons with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise,
ranging from biochemistry to food science to bioinformatics to clinical practice.
Thus, the workshop will bring together senior and junior scientists who would not normally meet or interact.
Collectively, the workshop is highly translational with lecture topics including introductions to genetics and
nutritional epidemiology, applications of NGx to cancer, CVD, and cognitive development, nutritional
epigenetics, clinical research and (nutri) pharmacogenomics. An additional feature of this workshop is the
inclusion of two interactive hands-on sessions where attendees learn how to analyze and interpret their own
genetic data.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10237001
- **Project number:** 1R13DK129024-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** Venkata Saroja Voruganti
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $13,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-03-15 → 2022-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10237001

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10237001, Nutrigenetics, Nutrigenomics and Precision Nutrition (1R13DK129024-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10237001. Licensed CC0.

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