German named director of Foods for Health Institute

Professor Bruce German, Department of Food Science, has been named the new director of the Foods for Health Institute. German is an internationally known scholar and leader in the field of food and health. He leads a milk genome project on campus that has gained significant financial support and attracted wide interest because of the interdisciplinary way in which the research effort has been conducted. Through the milk genome project, he has demonstrated that collaborations in research across broad disciplinary areas are possible and can lead to much more success than would individual, isolated efforts.

The Foods for Health Institute was organized to bring together campus faculty to collaborate in an area of research where UC Davis has the potential to be dominant in the world. The core components include research and outreach in the arenas of: medicinal nutrition, food engineering and processing, quality of life, and policy analysis and education methods. German replaces former director MRC Greenwood, who recently began her position as president of the University of Hawaii. German can be reached at (530) 752-1486, or by e-mail at jbgerman@ucdavis.edu