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Nicholas Jury, PhD (he/him/his)

Strategic Scientific Advisor
National Institutes of Health, Office of Nutrition Research
Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Dr. Jury serves as the Strategic Scientific Advisor and in this role, he is responsible for planning, analyzing, reporting, and communicating scientific, clinical, and policy issues and information in support of NIH nutrition research programs. He is also charged with coordinating the implementation efforts for the Office of Nutrition Research Strategic Plan and Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research. He is also the Co-Chair of the NIH Ultra-Processed Foods and Food is Medicine Thematic Working Groups.

Dr. Jury joined the NIH Office of Nutrition Research (ONR) in April 2021. He was selected as the Communications Director for the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. He spent five years with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) as a science policy analyst focused on strengthening clinical data and biospecimen sharing policies, managing the NIH Regenerative Medicine Innovation Project, contributing NHLBI-supported science advances to the weekly COVID Report, and producing reports to Congress before coming to the ONR. Prior to that, Dr. Jury was a senior fellow at the National Center for Health Research in Washington, D.C. where he made significant contributions to the 21st Century Cures Act and public health policies. He holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and a B.S. in cell and molecular biology from Bradley University. He completed a two and a half-year postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) where he conducted research examining the effects of age, genetics, sex as a biological variable, and chronic alcohol exposure on brain morphology and related behavioral outcomes.

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