NIH Metabolomics SIG Webinar - Dr. Susan Sumner
We are excited to announce our next NIH Metabolomics SIG webinar! Note that you will have to register here for the event before getting the access link.
Our speaker will be Dr. Susan Sumner from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. She will discuss "The Internal Exposome in Precision Medicine and Precision Nutrition”.
Dr. Sumner's laboratory is using untargeted metabolomics of the internal exposome to reveal how exposures perturb our normal metabolic state, and how these perturbations are associated with states of health and wellness. Using a nutritional pharmacology/toxicology workflow, the high-information metabolomics/exposome data is evaluated to design intervention strategies: such as needs in exposure reduction, or the formulation of nutrient cocktails that could protect against adverse exposures, or augment the beneficial impact of medical treatments. Applications in areas of drug addiction, inflammation, and pregnancy complications will be presented in the context of informing nutritional guidance. Ultimately, the nutritional pharmacology/toxicology approach will have a significant impact on public health by reducing environmentally related disease burden, or augmenting the beneficial impact of specific treatments (U2CES030857, U24CA268153).