Cellular and Molecular Nutrition Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS)

Overview

Cellular and Molecular Nutrition from Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), health and well-being in the population depends on nutritional status to a large extent.  Addressing the relationships between health, environment and well-being requires the development of different scientific capacities, starting at the cellular level and leading up to community level studies and interventions.

Key facts

The cellular and molecular nutrition group will provide the basic information dealing with causes and mechanisms of disease, leading to rational strategies for problem identification and solving, and finally resulting in appropriate and rational management of community interventions.  Further downstream, cellular and molecular approaches to evaluating the efficacy of nutritional interventions is also very important.  The cellular and molecular nutrition programs could also lead to the development of effective markers of tools to conduct surveillance on a population to identify and prevent nutrition associated disease.

The future of rational and effective therapies will depend on the ability of science to characterize a person’s genetic information such that susceptibilities and risks associated with changing environment can be tailored to individual needs.  Indeed, it is predicted that, such strategies will lead to the next generation of healthcare by 2030 (Vicente, 2020).

The proposed program would result in an integration of many fields of scientific activity, such as genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology, immunology and so on, for their most optimal utilization for modern nutritional science.  The cellular and molecular nutrition program will provide direction to future initiatives in these fields, directed towards nutrition, and perhaps generate a new science arena in Iran.