Dr. Zhenhua Liu, assistant professor of nutrition in the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences, working with faculty collaborators Drs. Richard Wood and Young-Cheul Kim of the department of nutrition, and Dr. Hang Xiao of the department of food science, along with Tufts University’s Dr. Joel Mason, recently received a four-year, $499,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The grant is for a project titled “Dietary and genetic inhibition of TNF- a suppresses obesity-associated intestinal tumorigenesis via diminishing Wnt-signaling.”