Susan C. J. Sumner

Susan C. J. Sumner is a Professor of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health. She serves as Director of the Metabolomics and Exposome Laboratory (MEL) at UNC Chapel Hill and leads research initiatives in precision nutrition and personalized medicine.

Her research spans maternal and child health, diabetes, toxicology, cancer, microbiome, and addiction, with a focus on using untargeted metabolomics/exposome technologies to identify biomarkers for disease detection and intervention strategies. She has received grants from NHLBI, NIGMS, NCI, NIDDK, and NIEHS.

• Mechanistic insights into environmental chemical metabolites
• Multi-omics approaches to obesity-related health outcomes
• Exposome analysis for lifespan health impacts

Dr. Sumner earned her B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from North Carolina State University, followed by postdoctoral research at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).