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Editor's Note: This Upshot article includes a table of the "Largest N.I.H. grant recipients among colleges, universities, and medical schools." Columbia University Health Sciences appears as #7.

For decades, nutrition researchers have focused on what — not when — people eat, so we don’t have many large or long-term studies on the influence of meal timing on health, said Nour Makarem.

“They are very uncertain as to how to proceed at the moment,” said Dr. Robert Klitzman, a psychiatrist and professor who was a founder of Columbia University’s Center for Bioethics.

“The major question that we were seeking to answer was how the brain senses and responds to different signals,” says Alexander Nectow at Columbia University.