The Friends of the Center for Human Nutrition consist of individuals or families that contribute yearly to the Center's research program. The funds provided by the Friends go 100% to supporting the Center's research. None goes to University overhead. The money is used primarily to support young nutrition investigators called Clinical Nutrition Research Fellows. Most of the Friends-supported research fellows have become academic investigators during research in human nutrition. This employment of Friend's support thus is amplified many times over through the development of life-longer researchers.

Joining the Friends makes you part of the effort to improve the quality of life today and for the next century. Your membership will support the research of promising young scientists and ensure that excellent nutrition research continues well into the future. Your membership also entitles you to receive the Center for Human Nutrition Newsletter, the Fresh News postcard eight times a year, to attend regular meetings with other members of the Friends and distinguished nutrition scientists, and to receive letters from Dr. Scott M. Grundy clarifying and updating current nutrition issues.

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Friends of the Center for Human Nutrition

• Peter O'Donnell, Jr. - Founder
• Charles M. Best - Past Chairman
• C. Thomas May, Jr. - Past Chairman
• S. Roger Horchow - Past President

Officers

• Mrs. Dan Busbee - Chairman
• Mrs. John P. Locke - President
• Mrs. George Poston - Vice President, Events
• Daniel G. Routman - Vice President, Communications
• Lyda Hill - Secretary
• Mrs. R. B. Caldwell - Treasurer
• Scott M. Grundy, M.D., Ph.D. - Director, Center for Human Nutrition
• Kenneth H. Cooper, M.D. - Scientific Advisory Committee

Board of Directors

• Edward M. Ackerman
• Mrs. Louis A. Beecherl, Jr.
• Mrs. Louis A. Beecherl, III
• Duncan E. Boeckman
• Edward O. Boshell, Jr.
• Mrs. Robert P. Buford
• Stephen W. Butt
• C. Vance Campbell
• Mrs. William P. Clements, Jr.
• Mary McDermott Cook
• Catherine A. Corrigan
• W. Bennett Cullum
• John W. Dayton
• Richard D. Eiseman, Jr.
• Vernon E. Faulconer
• Wallace L. Hall, Jr.
• J. Peter Kline
• Mrs. Robert Lavie
• Nancy O. Lemmon
• John I. Levy
• Mrs. Henry D. Lindsley, III
• Tom F. Marsh
• Mrs. Cappy R. McGarr
• Will S. Montgomery
• Mrs. R. Clayton Mulford
• Mrs. Brian Mutch
• Mrs. Robert H. Pickens
• Ann Duckett Reed
• Mrs. George A. Shutt
• Paul T. Stoffel
• Mrs. Richard C. Strauss
• Robert C. Vaughn
• Mrs. John R. Watson
• Mrs. James R. Wikert
• Mrs. Rodney Woods

Younger Friends Steering Committee

• D. Capera Ryan - Co-Chair
• Jeff Axley - Co-Chair
• Catherine Carr
• Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Lynch
• Mr. and Mrs. Allan W. McBee
• Mr. and Mrs. Corey Prestige
• Mr. and Mrs. David Hale Smith

Faculty

• Scott M. Grundy, M.D., Ph.D. - Director
• Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D.
• Abhimanyu Garg, M.D.
• Gloria Lena Vega, Ph.D.

Nutrition Scholars

• Nicola Abate, M.D.
• Anil Agarwal, Ph.D.
• Jo Ann Carson, Ph.D.
• Manisha Chandalia, M.D.
• Jiandi Zhang, Ph.D.