Principal Investigators
Dr. Debbie Kipp
Professor and Chair of the Dept of Nutrition, UNCG
Interim Director
Dr. Deborah Kipp is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is also Interim Director of The UNCG Center for Research Excellence in Bioactive Food Components, a satellite program in the department that is located at the North Carolina Research Campus. She previously held positions as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Human Environmental Sciences and Coordinator of the UNCG/HES arm of the North Carolina Agricultural Research Service that is based at North Carolina State University. She continues to be a Researcher with the Agricultural Research Service. Her research focuses on the role of nutrients and hormones on skeletal development. This and other research has been funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, The National Dairy Council, and the J. B. Reynolds Foundation.
Prior to joining UNCG, she was a faculty member at the University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) and was named the first Midland Dairy Council Endowed Professor at KUMC. She also held joint appointments in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Biology and Department of Medicine. She has been a visiting scientist with the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, a visiting scientist with the University of Toronto and a guest scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley.
A Registered Dietitian, she is a member of numerous professional organizations and has served as a panel member or consultant reviewer for grant programs for the National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Agriculture. She received her doctorate from Cornell University.