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The Nutrition Innovation Center

The Standard Process Nutrition Innovation Center represents a new era of nutrition science specific to the whole food health advantage.

The Center is located on the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, NC, chosen because of its strong collaborations and infrastructure. The first-of-its-kind, the Nutrition Innovation Center is dedicated to new solutions for health care professionals and patients:

  • Whole food nutritional therapies to improve individual health and well-being
  • Wholistic clinical care
  • Leverage organic and sustainable farming with regenerative practices to improve nutrient density in our plants and protect the environment
Catalyn Ingredients

Why the Nutrition Innovation Center Exists

  • Impact and change healthcare in the United States through nutrition therapy
  • Continue the legacy of our first innovator, Standard Process founder Dr. Royal Lee, by advancing clinical practices based on the whole food health advantage
Take a virtual tour

Explore our first-of-its-kind, 10,000-square-foot clinical research facility, which is uniquely equipped for a new era in nutritional therapy.

Professional Media and Learning Center
Professional Media and Learning Center

The Nutrition Innovation Center is home to a professional media and learning center that provides the most advanced educational tools and capabilities available to advance practitioner education and training.

Clinic of the Future
Clinic of the Future

The clinical practice at the Nutrition Innovation Center brings together credentialed health care professionals trained in integrative and functional health care approaches to whole-person care.

Discovery Lab
Discovery Lab

The lab at the Nutrition Innovation Center features state-of-the-art equipment for conducting innovative research, including work in nutrigenomics and epigenetics. We also use the lab for the complete analytical profiling of natural products and plants to define their active components and impact on targeted health conditions.

Nutrition Kitchen
Science Kitchen

Our kitchen enables people to better understand and adapt whole food nutrition into their lifestyles, providing a healthier way of preparing food.

Nutrition Innovation Center Leaders

Bassem El-Khodor, PhD

Bassem El-Khodor, PhD

Director of Discovery Science & Innovation

Saradhadevi Varadharaj, PhD, FAHA

Saradhadevi Varadharaj, PhD, FAHA

Director of Clinical Development & Clinical Studies

Brandon Metzger, PhD

Brandon Metzger, PhD

Director of Technical & Product Development

 
 
 

Partnerships

We selected the North Carolina Research Campus for its high level of technology and the insights available through partnerships.

On-Campus Partnerships and Collaborations

David H Murdock Research Institute

David Murdock Research Institute

Provides groundbreaking research and development solutions.

Our partnership with the onsite David Murdock Analytical Lab:

A major project in clinical biomarkers and metabalomic assessment designed to surface novel advances in clinical care and monitoring.

NC State University - Plants for Human Health Institute

North Carolina State - Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI)

Pioneering a dramatic shiſt in the way the American public views and uses plant-food crops as sources of nutrients and flavorful calories to powerful resources for components that protect and enhance human health

Our collaboration with PHHI:

Investigating the role and impact that selected whole food nutrition solutions and phytonutrients have on targeted health conditions, improving nutrient density, as well as whole food nutrition impact on the microbiome and health status.

Appalachian State University

Appalachian State University Human Performance Lab

The ASU Human Performance Laboratory is a national leader in the area of nutrition and exercise immunology.

Our collaboration with ASU:

Researching immune modulatory systems and responses to manage inflammation and recovery.

 

Nutrition Innovation Center Media Coverage

Charlotte Business Journal
What makes Kannapolis' N.C. Research Campus the best fit for Wisconsin company's new nutrition innovation center

Spectrum News
New Innovation Center Opens at North Carolina Research Campus

Chiropractic Economics
Standard Process Opens Major Research Facility in N.C.

WBTV and WOTC
Standard Process to open 10,000 square foot facility on North Carolina Research Campus

The Nutrition Innovation Center is located at the prestigious North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, North Carolina

150 N Research Campus Dr #1110, Kannapolis, NC 28081
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
(262) 495-6588
info@standardprocess.com

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