Program in International Nutrition, Cornell University | Year-in-Review | Issue #63
We are pleased to share this 2024 Year-in-Review highlighting key activities, accomplishments and news from Cornell and the international nutrition community. Thank you to all of our PIN Seminar speakers from both the Spring and Fall sessions for sharing your insights and exciting work with us!
Looking forward to 2025 - stay tuned for a PIN Symposium and get together on the Cornell Ithaca campus in the Spring, date to be announced soon! As always, we welcome feedback from the PIN community on what you’d like to see from the program in the coming year, including content for the newsletter and nominations for seminar speakers.
Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday!
Saurabh and the PIN Team
Highlights from the PIN Seminar
Thank you to all of the PIN Seminar speakers who joined us this year! Recordings of all Seminars from 2024 are now available to watch on the Cornell Video on Demand Program in International Nutrition Channel.
Dr. Eva Monterrosa, PhD ’10, PIN alum and Program Lead at GAIN
Dr. Cornelia Loechl, PhD, Section Head at the IAEA
Dr. Ravinder Mamtani, MD, MSc, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Dr. Pascale Vonaesch, PhD, University of Lausanne
Dr. Ty Beal, PhD, GAIN
Dr. Anaïs Rameau, MD, Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Daniel Raiten, PhD, FACS, National Institutes of Health
Dale E. Bauman Lecture 2024
A highlight of the year was the Dale E. Bauman Lecture delivered by Andrew Bremer, Director of the NIH Office of Nutrition Research, titled “Nutrition is Everyone’s Business.” In his presentation, co-sponsored by the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Animal Science and Department of Food Science along with the Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health at Cornell, Dr. Bremer discussed the role of nutrition in public health and a vision for the future of the field to address urgent global challenges. Watch Dr. Bremer’s lecture on YouTube.
Notable News from 2024
We share tributes to two giants in the field of nutrition and global health, Dr. Noel Solomons, and Dr. Richard Cash. These articles remember their dedication to their work and the huge impact they had on global health.
The Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell celebrated their 50th Anniversary, with a large cohort of PIN alumni, faculty and trainees attending Nutrition 2024 in Chicago to share their work and celebrate this huge milestone. Our College of Human Ecology is also currently celebrating its 100th year.
The American Society of Nutrition and Cornell University honored Dr. Malden Nesheim, founding Director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University and announced the Malden Nesheim Nutrition Landscape Award to commence in 2025.
In addition, Professor Emeritus Soekirman, Cornell alum and founder of the Indonesian Nutrition Foundation for Food Fortification (KFI) was recently recognized for his continued dedication to advancing nutrition policy and social change in Indonesia.
We also wanted to share our news on the technology transfer of the AnemiaPhone technology for assessing iron deficiency at the point of care to the government of India on November 7th for integration into its programs for anemia, women’s health, and maternal and child health; key biofortification successes; and onboarding the inaugural cohort of T32 trainees to be trained in artificial intelligence and precision nutrition.
Celebrating our Graduates
Congratulations to the 2024 graduates and newest members of the international nutrition community!
Looking forward - PIN Seminar Spring 2025
As we finalize our lineup of Spring PIN Seminar speakers, we are excited to announce a special seminar series with the MicroNutrient Forum team. More details on seminars and the planned PIN symposium to follow soon.
January 30, 2025 | Saskia Osendarp, Executive Director | MNF Mission and Vision
February 20, 2025 | Cecilia Fabrizio, Standing Together for Nutrition (ST4N) Program Lead | MNF Work on Climate Change and Nutrition
March 6, 2025 | Martin Mwangi, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies (HMHB) Program Lead | MNF Work on Multiple Micronutrient Supplementation and Maternal Nutrition
Key Publications from the PIN Community in 2024
Raiten DJ, Steiber AL, Dary O, Bremer AA. Nutrients. 2024 Jan 31;16(3):421. doi: 10.3390/nu16030421. PMID: 38337706; PMCID: PMC10857452
Exploring the Anemia Ecology: A New Approach to an Old Problem
Raiten DJ, Moorthy D, Hackl LS, Dary O. J Nutr. 2023 Dec;153 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):S1-S6. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2023.07.016. Epub 2023 Sep 30. PMID: 37778890; PMCID: PMC10797548
Potential Mechanisms of Precision Nutrition-Based Interventions for Managing Obesity
Mehta NH, Huey SL, Kuriyan R, Peña Rosas JP, Finkelstein JL, Kashyap S, Mehta S. Adv Nutr. 2024 Feb 3:100186. doi: 10.1016/j.advnut.2024.100186. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38316343.
Hackl LS, Karakochuk CD, Mazariegos DI, Jeremiah K, Obeid O, Ravi N, Ayana DA, Varela V, Alayón S, Dary O, Moorthy D. J Nutr. 2024 Apr 3:S0022-3166(24)00168-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.03.019. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38580209
Daily oral iron supplementation during pregnancy
Finkelstein JL, Cuthbert A, Weeks J, Venkatramanan S, Larvie DY, De-Regil LM, Garcia-Casal MN. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024 Aug 15;8(8):CD004736.
Ji N, Kumar A, Joe W, Kuriyan R, Sethi V, Finkelstein JL, Mehta S. J Nutr. 2024 Oct;154(10):2932-2947. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.08.021. Epub 2024 Aug 28.
Friesen VM, Mudyahoto B, Nyangaresi AM, Gorla I, Mbuya MN. Curr Dev Nutr. 2024 Oct 29;8(12):104498. doi: 10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.104498.
Busse KR, Dino ME, Martin SL, Lee Mayol NR, Bechayda SA, Adair LS, Ammerman AS. Appetite. 2024 Dec 1;203:107688. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107688. Epub 2024 Sep 20. PMID: 39307462; PMCID: PMC11537813.
Guetterman, HM, Rajagopalan, K, Fox, AM, Johnson C, Fothergill, A, George, N, Krisher, J, Haas, J, Mehta, S, Williams, JL, Crider, KS, Finkelstein JL. J Nutr. 2024 Oct 26:S0022-3166(24)01114-3. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.10.037. Online ahead of print. PMID: 39490799