Marissa Pickard

As 2025 comes to a close, we are reflecting on a year of accelerated collaboration, scientific breakthroughs, and expanding visibility across the global food and health ecosystem. Thank you for...

Nov 26, 2025 | Patti Waldmeir Financial Times Columnist, Patti Waldmeir sits down with IIFH faculty director, Justin Siegel, and Charlotte Biltekoff, UC Davis professor, to understand how GLP-1s are...

From morning coffee to afternoon tea or pre-workout supplements, caffeine is the world’s favorite performance enhancer consumed by millions to boost focus and delay fatigue. But new research from Dr. Keith...

24 Nov 2025 | By Jolanda van Hal   At the recent Discovery Forum on precision nutrition in the GLP-1 era, organized by the University of California (UC) Davis, US, we caught up...

By Nadine A Yehya, UC Davis Health This week, the White House announced a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to lower the cost of their GLP-1 weight loss drugs, Wegovy...

Publication: Journal of Applied Physiology | https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00512.2025 Authors: Danielle Steffen, Kevin J.M Paulussen, Ryman Crone, Benjamin Tucker, Suraj Pathak and Keith Baar  Abstract Caffeine is a well-known stimulant that is widely used to increase alertness and performance. However, there is little...

From Molecule to Metabolism: The Hidden Chemistry of Health When you talk with Dr. Sean H. Adams, Professor and Vice Chair for Basic Research in the Department of Surgery at...

Op-Ed | FoodTank | By: Selena Ahmed, John de la Parra, Justin Siegel, and Roy Steiner Poor diets are responsible for an estimated 17 million deaths each year, while the hidden...

UC Davis Coffee Center Annual Research Symposium & Institute for the Innovation of Food and Health (IIFH) Discovery Forum October 27, 2025 · University of California, Davis Caffeine—the world’s most...

The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI), supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, is mapping the molecular blueprint of food to transform how we eat and farm for the benefit of...

By Flora Southey |04-Nov-2025 The multinational hopes external innovation can help support consumers through weight loss and maintenance phases. Although much of Nestlé’s innovation is developed by its own experts, the...

06 Nov 2025 | By Jolanda van Hal Nutrition Insight speaks with Kat Cole, CEO of AG1, and Dr. Justin Siegel, IIFH faculty director and professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Medicine at...