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Katherine Cook

Principal Investigator

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

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Nutrition, Gut Microbiome, Metabolomics, Metabolic Health

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Katherine Cook studies how diet reshapes the gut microbiome and host metabolism to impact metabolic health. She combines metagenomics and metabolomics with controlled dietary models in mice and non‑human primates to identify pathways and actionable biomarkers.

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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Hippurate metabolite intervention to reduce offspring metabolic dysfunction from maternal obesity

Research exploring hippurate, a microbiome-derived metabolite, as a novel intervention to reduce metabolic dysfunction in offspring exposed to maternal obesity in utero. Preliminary data show hippurate signaling through ...

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Katherine Cook

Principal Investigator

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

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Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

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