Marissa Pickard

By Elaine Watson | AgFunder News Food industry veterans, including former CSOs at Mars and General Mills, are pooling capital through a new angel network in Davis, CA, Food & Health...

By Mark Anderson | Sacramento Business Journal The goal of the Food & Health Angels Network is to offer startups up to $3 million in seed money to move promising health...

By Beatrice Wihlander | Nutrition Insight Food & Health (FH) Angels Network has launched to bridge the gap between nutrition science, demand, and innovation amid a time of record-high obesity rates...

DAVIS, CA. — Thursday, March 19, 2026 — As metabolic disease becomes one of the defining health challenges of our time, scientists and entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to food as...

Highlights GLP-1 medicines reduce fat and liver mass more rapidly than skeletal muscle (SKM) Running performance is maintained or improved in mice on GLP-1 medicine GLP-1 medicine modifies the SKM...

This year has started off with a lot of momentum and we are excited to share what we have been up to so far from new partners and an angel...

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...