Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center
Discovering how nutrition and metabolism shape health
Advancing nutrition and metabolic health
The Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) brings together basic, translational, clinical, behavioral and data scientists to understand how nutrition and metabolism influence health, resilience, aging and chronic disease.
Through interdisciplinary research, advanced shared resources and intensive investigator development, the NMHC is building the scientific workforce and infrastructure needed to transform discovery into better health for Kentucky and beyond.
The Nutrition and Metabolic Health Center (NMHC) is a research center focused on understanding how nutrition, metabolism, physical activity, environmental exposures and individual susceptibility shape health and chronic disease.
The center unites investigators and research resources that were previously distributed across disciplines. Its coordinated structure includes an administrative core, three scientific research cores, four mentored research projects and a pilot project program designed to expand the pipeline of investigators working in nutrition and metabolic health.
The NMHC is supported through the NIH Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence program, which strengthens research infrastructure and develops independently funded investigators in IDeA-eligible states.
The NMHC is guided by its co-directors, associate director, executive committee and external advisory committee. The center works across university schools, departments, institutes, clinical partners and community organizations to advance collaborative research and investigator development.
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