44th NNDC
Conference
Program
The theme for the 44th Conference is Advancing Horizons: The Evolution and Application of Nutrition Data in the Digital Age.
During this conference, oral and poster presentations will discuss thematic topics of interest to food and nutrient data generators, researchers, government representatives and others interested by this specialized field.
Dr. Giulia Menichetti
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Menichetti is a statistical and computational physicist specializing in Network Science. She leads the Foodome project, which aims to track the complete chemical complexity of the food we consume and develop quantitative tools to reveal the mechanistic impact of these chemicals on our health. Her lab at the Channing Division of Network Medicine (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) and Harvard Medical School innovates methods to predict the bioactivity of food small molecules and designs reproducible food quality metrics and public health interventions powered by AI.
In 2022, Dr. Menichetti was selected by the Rockefeller Foundation and Acumen Academy for the inaugural cohort of the Food Systems Fellowship, a one-year program supporting 20 global leaders tackling the complexity of food systems. Most recently, she received the 2023 Junior Scientific Award from the International Complex Systems Society for “initiating the complexity science of food with wide-reaching implications for health research, ” and the 2024 Chair's Research Award from the Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Dr. Andrew (Drew) A. Bremer
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Bremer is the current Director of the NIH Office of Nutrition Research (ONR), part of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI) in the NIH Office of the Director. Since April 2025, he has also been the Acting Director of the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) within DPCPSI. Drew is a board-certified internist, pediatrician, and pediatric endocrinologist, and has a Ph.D. in pharmacology. Prior to his appointment as the ONR Director, Drew was the Chief of the Pediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Drew's areas of expertise include endocrine disorders, obesity, developmental origins of health and disease, and the role of nutrition in health throughout the life cycle. He earned his B.S. at Yale University, completed his M.D./Ph.D. training at Boston University, his internal medicine and pediatric residencies at the Baylor College of Medicine, his pediatric endocrinology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, and subsequently received an M.A.S. degree in clinical research from the University of California, Davis. Drew joined the NIH in 2013 after holding academic positions at the University of California, Davis (2007-2010) and Vanderbilt University (2010-2013).
Conference Program
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