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“The Devil Is in the Quantitation”: Dr. Carlito Lebrilla and the Molecular Map of Health Dr. Carlito Lebrilla, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Molecular Medicine at UC Davis, has...

For decades, Mars and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) have partnered to generate new science insights that enable impactful innovations in food and health, exemplifying the transformative potential...

The Bezos Earth Fund has selected the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) as a Phase I grantee of its AI Grand Challenge for Climate and Nature, awarding $50,000 to...

Throughout my academic career, I have always been highly motivated by the innumerable ways we can leverage fundamental scientific breakthroughs to provide creative solutions to global problems. I’m particularly interested...

UC Davis also announced an agreement with The March Group, a Davis-based venture capital firm, to work together to develop a business accelerator and associated fund, based on intellectual property...

Dr. Kasey Schalich, a UC Davis postdoctoral researcher and IIFH Innovator Fellow alumna, has won the Global Prebiotic Association’s Young Researcher Award for her groundbreaking work on how human milk...

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....

IIFH and the BioInnovation Institute have launched the Amplified African Foods (AAF) project to combat childhood stunting in Africa by enhancing the nutritional value of culturally significant meals. Led by...

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...

The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI), as it works to translate complex food composition data into actionable insights for nutrition, health, and sustainability. Featuring insights from UC Davis and...

IIFH and the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) are using cutting-edge multi-omics tools to decode the molecular makeup of food like never before—linking what we eat to how it...