The Friedman Center for Nutrition launched in 2018 with the goal of studying the interaction between diet, nutrition, the microbiota (the genetic material generated by the viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites that live in or on the human body) and the immune system and how these interactions influence immunity to infection, chronic inflammatory diseases and cancer.
Co-led by Dr. David Artis at Weill Cornell Medicine, the Allen Discovery Center for Neuroimmune Interactions at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hopes to revolutionize...
A type of dietary fiber called inulin, commonly used in health supplements and known to have certain anti-inflammatory properties, can also promote an allergy-related type of...
