BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Dec. 9 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Ryan McMillan, associate director of the Metabolism Core in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, passed away on Nov. 4. A Virginia Tech faculty member since 2006, McMillan was instrumental in creating the Metabolic Phenotyping Core, now called the Metabolism Core, which offers sophisticated in vivo and in vitro experimental tools to internal and external investigators. He was also the lead researcher in  more