Mission

The mission of the Nebraska Food for Health Center is to improve human health by linking agriculture and food production to wellness and disease prevention through microbiome research.

Goals

1. Create a multi-campus, interdisciplinary research team uniting gastrointestinal and biomedical research with production agriculture and plant/animal breeding/genetics.
2. Establish a comprehensive research platform focused on developing:
   1. Food crops bred for proven health promotion and agronomic traits,
   2. Foods with predictable, clinically-proven effects on the microbiome and host metabolic and inflammatory characteristics, and
   3. Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Synbiotics with predictable, clinically proven effects on gastrointestinal characteristics and/or metabolic and inflammatory characteristics.
3. Train new generation of interdisciplinary microbiome-related experts for careers as researchers, food and health industry leaders, and food innovation entrepreneurs.