Prestigious NIH Grant to Power N.C. A&T Food Scientist’s Fight Against Heart Disease

Written By Lexx Thornton A leading food scientist at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is part of a team that has received the most competitive grant offered by the National Institutes of Health to investigate whether plant-rich diets can become the newest weapon in the fight against cardiovascular disease.  Shengmin Sang, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Functional Foods in N.C. A&T’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES), will conduct a controlled human feeding study and analyze data collected from that study. This project is funded by a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the NIH’s National Heart Lung and

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