News Archive

January 2004 - April 2004

• Ken Prusa and Christine Fedler met with representatives from Swift and Company (Greeley, CO) and Nippon Ham (Tokyo, Japan) on March 4th to discuss the unique quality of Iowa pork for specialty products in Japan

• David S. Ludwig, Director, Obesity Program and Associate Director, General Clinical Research Center, Children's Hospital, Boston (Wise and Helen Burroughs Lectureship-Modern Views in Nutrition) visited with CDFIN Scientists on March 12th.

• D. Lee Alekel and her research group will soon begin recruiting postmenopausal women for a National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases/NIH funded multi-center clinical trial entitled Bone Response to Isoflavones in Women. Their collaborators at the University of California – Davis, Marta Van Loan and Robyn Fuchs, recently visited the ISU Human Metabolic Unit for cross-training of study personnel in the data collection procedures.

• Paul Flakoll, CDFIN director, was asked to deliver a keynote address at the International Symposium on Sports Nutrition March 7th at Tsukuba University near Tokyo, Japan. His talk entitled Optimal Timing of Post-Exercise Protein Supplementation was in tribute to the career of Masashige Suzuki, an internationally respected sports nutritionist. While in Japan, Flakoll represented CDFIN in discussions with three nutraceutical firms (Ajinomoto, Otsuka Pharmaceutical, and Fuji Oil) that have interests in interacting with CDFIN investigators.

• D. Lee Alekel and her research group will soon begin recruiting postmenopausal women for a National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases/NIH funded multi-center clinical trial entitled Bone Response to Isoflavones in Women. Their collaborators at the University of California – Davis, Marta Van Loan and Robyn Fuchs, recently visited the ISU Human Metabolic Unit for cross-training of study personnel in the data collection procedures.

• Paul Flakoll, CDFIN Director/Professor FSHN, and Shawn Baier, Assistant Scientist, have begun a new NIH study proposing to expand on preliminary studies in women to determine whether a combination of HMB, arginine, and lysine is effective in increasing whole body protein synthesis, fat-free strength and functionality in both older adult men and women.  Throughout this three year study, groups of elderly subjects will come to CDFIN for strength and functionality testing.  The first of these groups (from the Eastern Star Masonic Home in Boone, IA) visited CDFIN on January 29^th for initial screening.

• Murray Kaplan, FSHN Professor/Professor in Charge, CDFIN Mass Spectrometry Unit, and Jeanne Stewart, Assistant Scientist, presented a seminar, Use of Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry in Biology and Medicine, as part of the Modern Views in Nutrition Spring Seminar Series on February 11, 2004.  For more information about the CDFIN Mass Spectrometry Unit, contact Dr. Murray Kaplan (294-9304 or mkaplan@iastate.edu) or Jeanne Stewart (294-3926 or jws1@iastate.edu).

• Dr. Diane Birt, Center for Research on Botanical Dietary Supplements Director, has been selected to present at the Spring 2004 Presidential University Lecture Series.  Her lecture is entitled: Is Cancer Preventable? 
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• A Burger That Lowers Cholesterol - Researchers Test Adding Soybean Substance for Leaner Beef - Oksana Matvienko, PhD Post Doctorate Fellow at Iowa State University tested adding soybean substance for leaner beef to lower cholesterol.  

January 2003 - December 2003

• Center for Designing Foods to Improve Nutrition releases call for proposals.  Pre-proposals due October 15, 2003.  See proposal guidelines

• The Center for Research on Botanical Dietary Supplements

•  Supplements releases call for proposals.  Proposals due September 30, 2003.  See proposal guidelines

• On July 21^st, students, faculty, and guests gathered at CDFIN to welcome Dr. Roger A. Sunde Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Columbia-Missouri to ISU.  Dr. Sunde spent a week at Iowa State as a guest lecturer for the Human Nutritional Sciences Council’s Summer Lectureship 2003.  Dr. Roger A. Sunde’s Lecturship subject was, Molecular Nutrition of Trace Elements.  See photos