The Nutrition Research Institute (NRI) studies nutritional individuality and examines how this influences  the role of diet in normal brain development, the role of nutrition in the prevention of cancer, and the roles of diet and activity in the prevention and treatment of obesity. We are discovering breakthroughs in how we use nutrition to enhance human health--using individual metabolic variations to develop nutrition solutions that target individual susceptibilities and differences.  The NRI has the world’s best equipment for the study of nutrigenomics (how nutrients influence genes and how genes change metabolism) and metabolomics (the measurement of thousands of small molecules in a single blood or urine sample), and these new tools make individualized nutrition possible.