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A gift totaling $25 million from Irwin M. Jacobs ’54, BEE ’56 and the Jacobs family includes a new $15 million commitment, adding to a $10 million commitment in 2023 that helped establish the center.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
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An interdisciplinary team led by Cornell has received a five-year grant to launch a new center for engineering, testing and commercializing point-of-care diagnostic devices that will have international reach.

  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Health + Nutrition
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The NIH on Jan. 20 announced the Division of Nutritional Sciences and RTI International (RTI), a nonprofit research institute, will co-lead a new center that coordinates research for the NIH’s Nutrition for Precision Health study. Part of the...
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Food

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Cornell researchers’ concept for a quick, non-invasive, mobile phone-based system to detect infectious diseases, inflammation and nutritional deficiencies in saliva was awarded a $100,000 National Institutes of Health Technology Accelerator...

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Findings will inform the World Health Organization’s (WHO) international guidelines on breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Saurabh Mehta and Julia Finkelstein, both associate professors in Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences...
  • Global Development Section
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • Global Development