The nutrition and metabolism graduate students are hosting Matthew Vander Heiden from the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT for a special student-invited seminar in the Department of Nutritional Sciences’ Fall 2025 Seminar Series. His talk is titled “Influence of Nutrients on Cancer Progression” and will be held at the DeLuca Forum in the Discovery Building from 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 24.

Vander Heiden’s work explores metabolism and cancer biology, with a focus on how diet and whole-body metabolism affect cancer and other disease phenotypes. Recently, his group published a study showing that the metabolism of cancer cells is influenced by the tissue of origin, and this dictates where the cancer cells can metastasize.