Area: Precision Nutrition
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Yuxiang Sun
Professor Department of Nutrition, Associate Department Head for Graduate Programs, AgriLife Research Faculty Fellow Project: Ghrelin – a unique biomarker for nutritional state and inflamm-aging. This project aims to determine whether current knowledge of ghrelin in animal models is applicable to humans, and to determine whether ghrelin is a good biomarker of aging. Ghrelin is…
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Dmitry Kurouski
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering Project: Raman-based sensing of human and plant health. This project focuses on a non-invasive and non-destructive technique which has previously been used to sense the health of plants. The researchers propose expanding the application of this modern analytic technique to 1) detect and identify metabolism diseases and aging…
