Understanding how the body responds to nutrients could change how researchers approach chronic disease.

FSU’s Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health (ICON-Health) explored this connection at its first anniversary during an FSU Discovery Days symposium, bringing together experts to discuss nutrition, physical activity, GLP-1 medications and chronic disease.

BSSM Professor and ICON-Health Co-Director Regan Bailey, Ph.D., reflected on the institute’s growth to more than 80 scientists worldwide in just one year. Fellow Co-Director Patrick Stover, Ph.D., highlighted a new biomarker research core coming to the FSU Health Research and Collaboration Building. The facility will allow researchers to track how cells respond to different nutrients, helping uncover how nutrition influences health and disease.