PLANTING THE SEED OF HUMAN WELLNESS

The Center is partnering with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Arizona Experiment Station to launch an initiative studying the impacts of nutrition on inflammation resolution.

The collaboration will take root at the Arizona Experiment Station’s Campus Agricultural Center, a 160-acre research station located three miles North of the UArizona’s main campus in Tucson. The facility serves the university’s land-grant mission to bring evidence-based science to the public and advance research in the areas of food security, energy and water use efficiency, veterinary medicine, biotechnology, and human health.

Working to flip the switch from a disease-focused approach towards promoting optimal human health, the collaborative will allow research participants to be seen in a newly renovated clinical translational space at the Campus Agricultural Center.

Biomedical analytics for the initiative will be led by J. Ray Runyon, PhD, assistant research professor in the department of Environmental Science and the Center’s Stress Challenge/Sweat Collection/Sweat Biomarker lab director, using a state-of-the art liquid chromatography mass spectrometer at the Arizona Experiment Station.

The initiative will leverage the research team’s expertise to foster interactive community wellness and provide a better understanding of the role food plays in resilience to inflammation and healthy immune responses.