MANTP trainers provide outstanding research training in a broad array of nutrition and metabolism-related areas. Trainers are organized into six research focus groups to foster synergy and facilitate collaborations.
Digestive biology
Factors determining digestive health and how diet assimilation impacts cellular and systemic metabolism and the onset and progression of chronic disease.
Gut microbiome
How microbial composition and activates impact nutritional value of diet components and the development of nutrition and metabolism-linked diseases.
Macronutrient metabolism
How metabolic processes of energy-yielding nutrients are regulated to enable cells to grow, develop, and function and how dysregulation of those processes impact both rare and prominent human diseases.
Micronutrient metabolism
How vitamins and minerals participate in metabolic processes and how they impact health and disease.
Obesity and diabetes
What factors determine obesity risk and how obesity modulates the onset, progression, and treatment outcomes of human disease throughout the life cycle.
Systems biology
Using global “-omics” datasets to identify novel biological pathways and underlying diet-related diseases and explore actionable biomarkers and intervention targets.
The Metabolism and Nutrition Training Program (MANTP) is supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes for Health under award number 2T32DK007665.