News & Events

16.05.2012
New Grant from the Swiss National Research Foundation for the Project "Gastrointestinal exposure to nanoscale iron compounds in foods: absorptive pathways and potential toxicity".

09.05.2012
IFNH Seminar: Prof. Dr. Pattanee Winichagoon, Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand
"Maternal and child nutrition and control strategies against micronutrient deficiencies in Thailand"
Tuesday, 22 May 2012, 16:15, room LFO C 13

07.05.2012
Doctoral examination: Siwaporn Pinkaew
"Vitamin A and zinc efficacy in triple fortified extruded rice"
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 14:15, room LFO G 25
Chair: Prof. Michael B. Zimmermann

03.04.2012
New Grant from the Swiss National Research Foundation to Dr. Diego Moretti to conduct a studies on the effect of hepcidin on iron bioavailability in iron supplementation: project. The studies will be conducted in collaboration with the Division of Hematology, University Hospital Zürich and the Division of Laboratory Medicine, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Netherlands.

19.03.2012
Salt iodization works
Reference: Andersson M, Karumbunathan V, Zimmermann MB. Global iodine status in 2011 and trends over the past decade. J Nutr. 2012 Feb 29. Link: http://jn.nutrition.org/content/early/recent
The report includes a map showing the global situation. A press-release explaining the impact of the findings is available at ETH Life.