Marissa Pickard

In the recently launched Amplified African Food (AAF) project, scientists will address malnutrition and stunting in Africa with precision nutrition and by improving protein digestibility in foods rooted in culture....

BioInnovation Institute (BII), an enterprise foundation with a non-profit objective incubating and accelerating world-class life science and deep tech research, today announces that three new company creation projects have entered...

Prevalence of stunting is a widespread problem across Africa among children under five years of age resulting in lifelong, and often irrevocable, cognitive and developmental impairments. This happens when women...

UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, Novo Nordisk Foundation Announce First-of-Its-Kind Fellowship By Marissa Pickard The University of California, Davis’s Innovation Institute for Food and Health, UC Investments...

                       The recent event, Investing in the Future of Human and Planetary Health, was co-hosted by the AI Institute for...

By Noramay Cadena and Minami Ogawa Supply Change Capital (SCC) invests in technologies to transform the food system. Sometimes, the deals we consider utilize cutting-edge scientific techniques, and they are...

Proteins are the workhorses of life, executing virtually every biological function on Earth. The human body alone is composed of about 100,000 unique proteins that enable us to think, see,...

The 2024 IIFH Partner Summit brought together forward-thinking leaders from industry, investors, academia, startups, foundations, research institutions and more. It is this level of uncommon collaboration that is at the...

Dr. Justin Siegel and Dr. Robert Hall join the Foodie Pharmacology podcast for a conversation about what the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) is doing to better understand global...

By Minami Ogawa, Innovator Fellow, Supply Change Capital Food has always been at the heart of my journey. From the storybooks my mom read to me, I vividly remember being...

What questions does PTFI research try to answer? Some of our big research questions are: What is in food? That’s really an entire scientific enterprise–wide question that we have at...

At the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health’s 2024 Partner Summit, H. Rao Unnava, dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management interviews Christian Tillegreen, director of...