Dr. Folami Ideraabdullah (Associate Professor, Genetics and Nutrition) was awarded a new R21 grant from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) for her project titled “Developmental windows of vitamin D supplementation for optimal metabolic health”.
The proposed study aims to: (1) Determine the importance of vitamin D sufficiency during pre-, peri-, or post-conceptional windows of development in driving the accumulation of adiposity and risk of obesity-related comorbidities later in life; and (2) Define the developmental timing of vitamin D deficiency-induced transcriptional dysregulation and investigate its role in disruption of metabolic programming.