NUTS 2022 Conference Summary
“Where we are and where we are going in Research”.
Reus, 20-21, October 2022
SPEAKERS
 | CESARETTIN ALASALVAR,, PhD, FIFT, FISNFF, FIAFoST, FRSC TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center, Food Institute. Gebze-Kocaeli, Turkey Dr. Cesarettin Alasalvar is the Director of the Food Institute at TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center (MRC) in Turkey and is also an Associate Professor of Food Science and Engineering. His research interests focused mainly on the development of functional foods and nutraceuticals for life-threatening diseases, functional properties of foods, bioactive properties of phytochemicals, and separation/identification of bioactives as well as bioavailability of foods and human trials. Dr. Alasalvar has been active in the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) programs for many years and served as a past chair of the Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Division. He is also an Executive Board Member of the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (ISNFF) and is current chair of ISNFF 2022 Conference, held in İstanbul. Dr. Alasalvar is an editor of Food Chemistry journal and serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Food Bioactives and Food Chemistry Advances. He is active in Horizon Europe Programme and has been serving as Turkish Delegate of Cluster 6 (Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment) of the Horizon Programme Committee since 2021. He also serves as Academic Committee and World Forum for Nutrition Research and Dissemination Committee Members of International Nut and Dried Fruit Council (INC). Dr. Alasalvar is the editor of seven books including Tree Nuts: Composition, Phytochemicals and Health Effects, Dried Fruits: Phytochemicals and Health Effects, and Health Benefits of Nuts and Dried Fruits and holds seven patents. His work has led to the publication of over 100 research articles in the form of peer-reviewed journals (h-index of 43) and book chapters. Dr. Alasalvar has received a number of international prestigious awards; including the IFT-Fellow Award (2012), the TÜBİTAK MRC – Most Successful Researcher Award (2012), the ISNFF Merit Award (2014), the Sabri Ülker International Science and Innovation Award on Food, Nutrition, and Health (2015), the ISNFF-Fellow Award (2019), the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAUFoST)- Fellow Award (2020), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)-Fellow Award (2020) in recognition of his pioneering scientific achievements. He is a principle founder of Food Innovation Platform of Turkey (TÜGİP). |
| DAGFINN AUNE Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Nutrition, Bjørknes University College, Oslo, Norway Dagfinn Aune is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London and an associate professor at the Department of Nutrition, Bjørknes University College in Oslo, Norway. He completed his PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2016 and has a MSc in Nutrition from the University of Oslo from 2008. He has since 2010 worked for several years in the Continuous Update Project of the World Cancer Research Fund, updating the systematic reviews and meta-analyses that were the basis for the report Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Risk of Cancer: A Global Perspective that was published in 2007 and contributed to the Third Expert Report that was published in 2018. He has worked extensively on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of nutrition and lifestyle factors and chronic disease prevention. He has a special interest in the role of plant foods and adiposity as risk factors for chronic diseases and premature mortality. He has a wide network of collaborators globally and has been involved in analyses in the EPIC study, the HUNT study and the UK Biobank study. |
DAVID BAUER, PhD
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center located in Beltsville, Maryland
David J. Baer, Ph.D., is a Supervisory Research Physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center located in Beltsville, Maryland. He serves as the Research Leader for the Center’s Food Components and Health Laboratory.
Dr. Baer conducts controlled dietary intervention studies to investigate the relationship between diet and the risk for chronic degenerative diseases, especially cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes in people. Some of the dietary interventions he has investigated include the effects of different types of protein, fats and fatty acids, fiber, margarine, butter, plant sterols, salad dressings, nuts, whole grains, berries, alcohol and tea on overall nutrition and health. His publications include important findings from randomized controlled trials on the effects of different fatty acids on risk for cardiovascular disease, especially several large trials investigating partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and trans fatty acids. He was among the first to demonstrate how diets impact systemic inflammation, and this research was recognized in 2004 when he was the inaugural recipient of the Pan American Prize on Nutrition, Science and Food Technology. In 2012, he began publishing several peer-reviewed articles describing the energy value of different nuts using an approach developed in his Laboratory. This research updates methods that have been used since the late 1890s to label the energy (calorie) content of foods. He served as the Guest Editor for the journal Nutrients’ special issue titled “Nut Consumption for Human Health.” In addition to dietary intervention studies, Baer is involved in research studies to validate food survey methodologies and to develop new methods for dietary assessment. Dr. Baer earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and his Masters and doctorate in nutrition from Michigan State University.
NÁGILA R T DAMASCENO, Prof, PhD, MSc, Prof, PhD, MSc
Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Sao Paulo University, Brazil
Dr Nágila Damasceno is the Director of the Division of Nutrition and Dietetics at University Hospital of the Sao Paulo University, Brazil and Associate Professor of Clinical Nutrition at the same university. Her research interests include experimental and clinical trials about omega-3, olive oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil in cardiovascular diseases, neuroscience (epilepsy and multiple sclerosis) and breast cancer. She has provided her expertise in nutrition for different expert painels, including Brazilian Cardiology Society (SBC), Brazilian Food and Nutrition Society (SBAN) and Cardiology Society of Sao Paulo (SOCESP) and as member of Advisor Board of these institutions contribute to Position Statement on Fat Consumption and Cardiovascular Health (2021). Dr Damasceno is full professor at the post-graduation program on Nutrition and Public Health at Sao Paulo University. She is also an Executive Member of Department of Nutrition in Cardiology at Cardiology Society of Sao Paulo. For five years, Dr Damasceno coordinated the International Program of Scientific Cooperation between Sweden and Brazil (CAPESP-STINT) in nutrition area, promoting exchanging of professors, researchers and post-graduate students between both countries. In 2020, she expanded her international collaborations to Germany-SHIP Trend and Brazilian-SHIP Cohorts focused in nutrition-genetic determinants of the cardiovascular diseases. As researcher of the National Council of Research (CNPq) and The Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) coordinated more than 30 projects and supervised more than 60 post-graduate students. In 2003 and 2012 received the CAPES AWARD for excellence in Nutrition Research. Since 2010, Dr Damasceno is Co-Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Complex Fluids dedicating part of her time to investigate the role of bioactive substances in foods on oxidative stress and inflammation on lipid metabolism, and structure and functionality of low- and high-density lipoproteins. In addition to the original publications, Dr Damasceno is editor of four books and eighteen book chapters.
BRADLEY BOLLING, PhD.
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Bradley Bolling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and the Fritz Friday Chair of Vegetable Processing Research, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned undergraduate and PhD degrees in Food Science at UW-Madison and received postdoctoral training in Nutritional Sciences at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research center on Aging at Tufts University. Dr. Bolling’s research focus is on determining the role of foods and phytochemicals in preventing chronic diseases. His current research aims are to characterize how interindividual variability in metabolic pathways of dietary bioactive components influences efficacy of dietary interventions; characterize the ability of bioactives to prevent chronic inflammation associated with obesity and auto-immune disease; and determine the abundance and variability of bioactive components in the food supply. He is presently utilizing human intervention studies, cellular studies, and animal models to accomplish these objectives. Dr. Bolling is a Scientific Editor for the Journal of Food Science and Chair-Elect of the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Food Science, include a graduate course about dietary bioactives.
GRAHAM FINLAYSON, PhD.
Prof. Graham Finlayson is a psychologist and Professor in Psychobiology in the Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Leeds, UK. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship at Steno Diabetes Centre Copenhagen. His research focuses on understanding what underpins the control of human appetite and why people overeat. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed research papers with +9,000 total citations.
Homepage: http://aceb-research.leeds.ac.uk/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/graham-finlayson-16955249
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=O5xK_NsAAAAJ
MICHELLE DALTON, PhD
School of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, Leeds Trinity Univeristy, Leeds, England, United Kingdom.
Dr. Michelle Dalton is the Deputy Head of Psychology at Leeds Trinity University, UK. Prior to joining Leeds Trinity in 2017, Michelle was a postdoctoral researcher in the Appetite Control and Energy Balance lab at the University of Leeds. Her research specialises in the biopsychological investigation of appetite control and eating behaviour with a focus on examining individual differences in susceptibility to weight gain.
HEINZ FREISLING, PhD
Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) in Lyon, France
Dr. Heinz Freisling is a Scientist and Team leader of the Nutrition, Cancer and Multimorbidity Team at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) in Lyon, France. He earned undergraduate and PhD degrees in molecular nutrition and nutritional epidemiology at the University of Vienna. During his stay as a post-doctoral researcher and later on as a Scientist at the IARC-WHO, he assumed a leading role in dietary exposure assessment to answer scientific questions related to diet and health, in particular with regard to cancer prevention. His current research interests are focused on understanding the role of diet, nutrition, and metabolic health, and their interplay with genetic susceptibility in the etiology of major chronic diseases, in particular cancer, but also diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. This will be done in large, mostly prospective, observational studies that are accessible for research such as the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort, the UK Biobank, but also primary care databases and genetic consortia. He is currently coordinating five large on-going research projects in cancer epidemiology as Principal Investigator. An important feature of these projects is the aim to go beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of data acquisition and statistical analysis. One example of this in his research is the application of a “triangulation” approach combining two or more statistical techniques as a means to reduce uncertainty and identify potential causal factors in relation to disease risk. His scientific competence is exemplified by over 170 peer-reviewed publications in major scientific journals, with many as first or senior author.
MARTA GUASCH-FERRÉ, PhD.
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Guasch-Ferré is a Research Scientist in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Guasch-Ferré earned her PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism from the Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. She previously earned a BS and Master in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the same university. Her research interests include the role of Mediterranean diet, nuts, olive oil and dietary fatty acids on type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and mortality. She has conducted extensive research on this field in the framework of the PREDIMED trial and three large U.S. prospective cohorts, the Nurses’ Health Study I and II and Health Professionals Follow-up Study. During her postdoctoral training at the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, she has integrated metabolomics approaches to gain insights into the biological mechanisms underlying the associations between dietary and lifestyle factors with chronic diseases. Her ongoing research aims include bringing an individualized therapeutic lifestyle approach to the clinical treatment of cardiometabolic diseases by integrating dietary and lifestyle factors, phenotypic and omics data for the prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She is the PI of the project ‘Mechanisms underlying metabolomics profiles and type 2 diabetes’ granted by the American Diabetes Association.
CRYSTAL HASKELL-RAMSAY, Prof.
Crystal is a Professor of Biological Psychology based in the Psychology Department of Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research focuses on the impact of nutrition on cognition and wellbeing. She has over 15 years’ experience in the assessment of cognitive performance, with her early work exploring the neurocognitive effects of caffeinated plants. Her current research focuses on the biobehavioural effects of polyphenolic compounds from sources including coffee, cocoa, berries and nuts. She is also interested in the impact of food insecurity on wellbeing as well as the relationship between women’s wellbeing and nutrition at key stages across the lifespan.
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FRANK HU. Prof.
Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Channing Division for Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, MA, USA.
Dr. Frank Hu is Chair of Department of Nutrition, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as Co-director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at Harvard and Director of Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Epidemiology and Genetics Core. Dr. Hu is the recipient of the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology by the American Diabetes Association in 2010 and the American Heart Association’s Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer in 2018. He has served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease, the AHA/ACC Obesity Guideline Expert Panel, and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS. He has served on the editorial boards of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
DAVD JENIKINS, Prof.
University of Toronto & St. Michael’s Hospital.
Prof. David J.A. Jenkins is an University Professor, and Canada Research Chair, in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Medicine, a staff physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, and a Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital. He was educated at Oxford University, obtaining his DM, DPhil and DSc. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He has served on committees in Canada and the United States that formulated nutritional guidelines for the treatment of diabetes and recommendations for fiber and macronutrient intake under the joint US-Canada DRI system (RDAs) of the National Academy of Sciences. He also served as a member of Agriculture Canada’s Science Advisory Board (2004-2009) on the future direction of Canada’s agriculture and agricultural research. He has spent much time working with the food industry to develop products for the supermarket shelf and, for example, helped to initiate a major Canadian supermarket line of heart healthy foods. His research area is the use of diet in the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia and diabetes. He has over 350 original publications on these and related topics. His team was the first to define and explore the concept of the glycemic index of foods and demonstrate the breadth of metabolic effects of viscous soluble fiber, including blood glucose and cholesterol lowering. His group developed the cholesterol lowering concept of the dietary portfolio that has entered guidelines in many jurisdictions (e.g. CCS, Heart UK etc.). He believes in the therapeutic value of plant based diets and that diets have to be environmentally sustainable.
JORDI JÚLVEZ
Dr Jordi Julvez, Group Leader at the Institute of Health Research Pere Virgili (IISPV)
He achieved his bachelor’s degree in Psychology at University of Barcelona (UB) in 1999, a Master of Clinical Neuropsychology at the UB in 2002 and a PhD. in Psychology and Epidemiology at the University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2007. He worked in the field of epidemiology and developmental neurotoxicity at the Harvard School of Public Health (2008-2011), where he has an affiliation as visiting scientist. He was awarded a 2020-Miguel Servet tipo II tenure-track stipend at the IISPV to establish his group, Environmental Epidemiology, Nutrition and Developmental Neuropsychology (NeuroÈpia). His team’s focus is to determine what environmental and nutritional factors may affect neurodevelopment from cradle-to-grave, with a focus in Epidemiology and Neuropsychology. He is PI of several projects such as Walnuts, Omega-Brain and NutInBrain (https://smartsnack.isglobal.org/en/homemain-3/), WP6 Co-leader and a Partner of the H2020 LifeCycle and Equal-Life projects as well as collaborator of INMA, HELIX, Phenotype, Breathe, BISC and ATHLETE projects.
CYRIL KENDALL, Prof.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada
Prof. Cyril WC Kendall is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, St. Michael’s Hospital and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan. He was educated at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his Honors BSc, MSc and PhD. His primary research interest is the role of diet in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Dr. Kendall has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. His research on the Portfolio Diet, which combines cholesterol-lowering food components, has been included in the US National Cholesterol Education Program (ATP III) and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines as an effective dietary strategy for cholesterol reduction. He has also conducted much research on the role of healthy diets, including low glycemic index diets, in the control of type 2 diabetes. Dr. Kendall has worked extensively with the food industry to develop healthy foods. He is a founding member of the International Carbohydrate Quality Consortium (ICQC), Executive Board Member of the Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group (DNSG) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), is on the Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Committee for Nutrition Therapy of the EASD and is a Director of the Toronto 3D Knowledge Synthesis and Clinical Trials foundation.
NNY KRIS-ETHERTON, Prof., RD., FAHA., FNLA., FASN., CL
The Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton is Distinguished Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research expertise is cardiovascular nutrition. She conducts controlled clinical nutrition studies designed to evaluate the effects of nutrients, bioactives and dietary patterns on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Dr. Kris-Etherton has served on national committees that have issued dietary guidelines (the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee and the 2002 National Academies Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Macronutrients and Cholesterol). She served on the 2nd Adult Treatment Panel of the National Cholesterol Education Program. As a member of the American Heart Association (AHA) Nutrition Committee, she has co-authored numerous Scientific Statements and Advisories that have made diet and lifestyle recommendations for the prevention and treatment of CVD. She also co-authored the National Lipid Association’s (NLA) recommendations for Patient-Centered Management of Dyslipidemia. She is Chair of the AHA Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health, and Past Chair of the AHA Nutrition Committee. Dr. Kris-Etherton is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the National Lipid Association (where she served as President), and the American Society for Nutrition. She has published over 350 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and has received numerous awards from the American Society for Nutrition, the American Oil Chemist’s Society, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the International Nut & Dried Fruit Council, the Northeast Lipid Association Chapter, and the National Lipid Association for her accomplishments and contributions to the profession.
GIUSEPPINA MANDALARI, PhD
University of Messina, Italy
Giusy Mandalari, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Messina, Italy. My main research interest involves the basic physiology underlying the digestion within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The bioaccessibility of nutrients and phytochemicals from various food matrices has important implications in the areas of disease prevention and management. My main research interests are: simulated in vivo studies of human digestion in relation to gut health; investigation of the pharmacological and antimicrobial properties of plant extracts through in vitro and in vivo studies; evaluation of the prebiotic effect of functional foods on the intestinal microbiota. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Science. I serve as Scientific Editor for the Journal “Nutrients”.
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DAVID BAUER, PhD
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center located in Beltsville, Maryland
David J. Baer, Ph.D., is a Supervisory Research Physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center located in Beltsville, Maryland. He serves as the Research Leader for the Center’s Food Components and Health Laboratory.
Dr. Baer conducts controlled dietary intervention studies to investigate the relationship between diet and the risk for chronic degenerative diseases, especially cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes in people. Some of the dietary interventions he has investigated include the effects of different types of protein, fats and fatty acids, fiber, margarine, butter, plant sterols, salad dressings, nuts, whole grains, berries, alcohol and tea on overall nutrition and health. His publications include important findings from randomized controlled trials on the effects of different fatty acids on risk for cardiovascular disease, especially several large trials investigating partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and trans fatty acids. He was among the first to demonstrate how diets impact systemic inflammation, and this research was recognized in 2004 when he was the inaugural recipient of the Pan American Prize on Nutrition, Science and Food Technology. In 2012, he began publishing several peer-reviewed articles describing the energy value of different nuts using an approach developed in his Laboratory. This research updates methods that have been used since the late 1890s to label the energy (calorie) content of foods. He served as the Guest Editor for the journal Nutrients’ special issue titled “Nut Consumption for Human Health.” In addition to dietary intervention studies, Baer is involved in research studies to validate food survey methodologies and to develop new methods for dietary assessment. Dr. Baer earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and his Masters and doctorate in nutrition from Michigan State University.
NÁGILA R T DAMASCENO, Prof, PhD, MSc, Prof, PhD, MSc
Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Sao Paulo University, Brazil
Dr Nágila Damasceno is the Director of the Division of Nutrition and Dietetics at University Hospital of the Sao Paulo University, Brazil and Associate Professor of Clinical Nutrition at the same university. Her research interests include experimental and clinical trials about omega-3, olive oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil in cardiovascular diseases, neuroscience (epilepsy and multiple sclerosis) and breast cancer. She has provided her expertise in nutrition for different expert painels, including Brazilian Cardiology Society (SBC), Brazilian Food and Nutrition Society (SBAN) and Cardiology Society of Sao Paulo (SOCESP) and as member of Advisor Board of these institutions contribute to Position Statement on Fat Consumption and Cardiovascular Health (2021). Dr Damasceno is full professor at the post-graduation program on Nutrition and Public Health at Sao Paulo University. She is also an Executive Member of Department of Nutrition in Cardiology at Cardiology Society of Sao Paulo. For five years, Dr Damasceno coordinated the International Program of Scientific Cooperation between Sweden and Brazil (CAPESP-STINT) in nutrition area, promoting exchanging of professors, researchers and post-graduate students between both countries. In 2020, she expanded her international collaborations to Germany-SHIP Trend and Brazilian-SHIP Cohorts focused in nutrition-genetic determinants of the cardiovascular diseases. As researcher of the National Council of Research (CNPq) and The Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) coordinated more than 30 projects and supervised more than 60 post-graduate students. In 2003 and 2012 received the CAPES AWARD for excellence in Nutrition Research. Since 2010, Dr Damasceno is Co-Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Complex Fluids dedicating part of her time to investigate the role of bioactive substances in foods on oxidative stress and inflammation on lipid metabolism, and structure and functionality of low- and high-density lipoproteins. In addition to the original publications, Dr Damasceno is editor of four books and eighteen book chapters.
BRADLEY BOLLING, PhD.
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Bradley Bolling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and the Fritz Friday Chair of Vegetable Processing Research, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned undergraduate and PhD degrees in Food Science at UW-Madison and received postdoctoral training in Nutritional Sciences at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research center on Aging at Tufts University. Dr. Bolling’s research focus is on determining the role of foods and phytochemicals in preventing chronic diseases. His current research aims are to characterize how interindividual variability in metabolic pathways of dietary bioactive components influences efficacy of dietary interventions; characterize the ability of bioactives to prevent chronic inflammation associated with obesity and auto-immune disease; and determine the abundance and variability of bioactive components in the food supply. He is presently utilizing human intervention studies, cellular studies, and animal models to accomplish these objectives. Dr. Bolling is a Scientific Editor for the Journal of Food Science and Chair-Elect of the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Food Science, include a graduate course about dietary bioactives.
GRAHAM FINLAYSON, PhD.
Prof. Graham Finlayson is a psychologist and Professor in Psychobiology in the Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Leeds, UK. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship at Steno Diabetes Centre Copenhagen. His research focuses on understanding what underpins the control of human appetite and why people overeat. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed research papers with +9,000 total citations.
Homepage: http://aceb-research.leeds.ac.uk/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/graham-finlayson-16955249
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=O5xK_NsAAAAJ
MICHELLE DALTON, PhD
School of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, Leeds Trinity Univeristy, Leeds, England, United Kingdom.
Dr. Michelle Dalton is the Deputy Head of Psychology at Leeds Trinity University, UK. Prior to joining Leeds Trinity in 2017, Michelle was a postdoctoral researcher in the Appetite Control and Energy Balance lab at the University of Leeds. Her research specialises in the biopsychological investigation of appetite control and eating behaviour with a focus on examining individual differences in susceptibility to weight gain.
HEINZ FREISLING, PhD
Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) in Lyon, France
Dr. Heinz Freisling is a Scientist and Team leader of the Nutrition, Cancer and Multimorbidity Team at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) in Lyon, France. He earned undergraduate and PhD degrees in molecular nutrition and nutritional epidemiology at the University of Vienna. During his stay as a post-doctoral researcher and later on as a Scientist at the IARC-WHO, he assumed a leading role in dietary exposure assessment to answer scientific questions related to diet and health, in particular with regard to cancer prevention. His current research interests are focused on understanding the role of diet, nutrition, and metabolic health, and their interplay with genetic susceptibility in the etiology of major chronic diseases, in particular cancer, but also diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. This will be done in large, mostly prospective, observational studies that are accessible for research such as the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort, the UK Biobank, but also primary care databases and genetic consortia. He is currently coordinating five large on-going research projects in cancer epidemiology as Principal Investigator. An important feature of these projects is the aim to go beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of data acquisition and statistical analysis. One example of this in his research is the application of a “triangulation” approach combining two or more statistical techniques as a means to reduce uncertainty and identify potential causal factors in relation to disease risk. His scientific competence is exemplified by over 170 peer-reviewed publications in major scientific journals, with many as first or senior author.
MARTA GUASCH-FERRÉ, PhD.
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Guasch-Ferré is a Research Scientist in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Guasch-Ferré earned her PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism from the Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. She previously earned a BS and Master in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the same university. Her research interests include the role of Mediterranean diet, nuts, olive oil and dietary fatty acids on type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and mortality. She has conducted extensive research on this field in the framework of the PREDIMED trial and three large U.S. prospective cohorts, the Nurses’ Health Study I and II and Health Professionals Follow-up Study. During her postdoctoral training at the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, she has integrated metabolomics approaches to gain insights into the biological mechanisms underlying the associations between dietary and lifestyle factors with chronic diseases. Her ongoing research aims include bringing an individualized therapeutic lifestyle approach to the clinical treatment of cardiometabolic diseases by integrating dietary and lifestyle factors, phenotypic and omics data for the prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She is the PI of the project ‘Mechanisms underlying metabolomics profiles and type 2 diabetes’ granted by the American Diabetes Association.
CRYSTAL HASKELL-RAMSAY, Prof.
Crystal is a Professor of Biological Psychology based in the Psychology Department of Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research focuses on the impact of nutrition on cognition and wellbeing. She has over 15 years’ experience in the assessment of cognitive performance, with her early work exploring the neurocognitive effects of caffeinated plants. Her current research focuses on the biobehavioural effects of polyphenolic compounds from sources including coffee, cocoa, berries and nuts. She is also interested in the impact of food insecurity on wellbeing as well as the relationship between women’s wellbeing and nutrition at key stages across the lifespan.F
FRANK HU. Prof.
Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Channing Division for Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, MA, USA.
Dr. Frank Hu is Chair of Department of Nutrition, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as Co-director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at Harvard and Director of Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Epidemiology and Genetics Core. Dr. Hu is the recipient of the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology by the American Diabetes Association in 2010 and the American Heart Association’s Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer in 2018. He has served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease, the AHA/ACC Obesity Guideline Expert Panel, and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS. He has served on the editorial boards of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
DAVD JENIKINS, Prof.
University of Toronto & St. Michael’s Hospital.
Prof. David J.A. Jenkins is an University Professor, and Canada Research Chair, in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Medicine, a staff physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, and a Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital. He was educated at Oxford University, obtaining his DM, DPhil and DSc. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He has served on committees in Canada and the United States that formulated nutritional guidelines for the treatment of diabetes and recommendations for fiber and macronutrient intake under the joint US-Canada DRI system (RDAs) of the National Academy of Sciences. He also served as a member of Agriculture Canada’s Science Advisory Board (2004-2009) on the future direction of Canada’s agriculture and agricultural research. He has spent much time working with the food industry to develop products for the supermarket shelf and, for example, helped to initiate a major Canadian supermarket line of heart healthy foods. His research area is the use of diet in the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia and diabetes. He has over 350 original publications on these and related topics. His team was the first to define and explore the concept of the glycemic index of foods and demonstrate the breadth of metabolic effects of viscous soluble fiber, including blood glucose and cholesterol lowering. His group developed the cholesterol lowering concept of the dietary portfolio that has entered guidelines in many jurisdictions (e.g. CCS, Heart UK etc.). He believes in the therapeutic value of plant based diets and that diets have to be environmentally sustainable.
JORDI JÚLVEZ
Dr Jordi Julvez, Group Leader at the Institute of Health Research Pere Virgili (IISPV)
He achieved his bachelor’s degree in Psychology at University of Barcelona (UB) in 1999, a Master of Clinical Neuropsychology at the UB in 2002 and a PhD. in Psychology and Epidemiology at the University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2007. He worked in the field of epidemiology and developmental neurotoxicity at the Harvard School of Public Health (2008-2011), where he has an affiliation as visiting scientist. He was awarded a 2020-Miguel Servet tipo II tenure-track stipend at the IISPV to establish his group, Environmental Epidemiology, Nutrition and Developmental Neuropsychology (NeuroÈpia). His team’s focus is to determine what environmental and nutritional factors may affect neurodevelopment from cradle-to-grave, with a focus in Epidemiology and Neuropsychology. He is PI of several projects such as Walnuts, Omega-Brain and NutInBrain (https://smartsnack.isglobal.org/en/homemain-3/), WP6 Co-leader and a Partner of the H2020 LifeCycle and Equal-Life projects as well as collaborator of INMA, HELIX, Phenotype, Breathe, BISC and ATHLETE projects.
CYRIL KENDALL, Prof.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada
Prof. Cyril WC Kendall is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, St. Michael’s Hospital and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan. He was educated at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his Honors BSc, MSc and PhD. His primary research interest is the role of diet in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Dr. Kendall has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. His research on the Portfolio Diet, which combines cholesterol-lowering food components, has been included in the US National Cholesterol Education Program (ATP III) and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines as an effective dietary strategy for cholesterol reduction. He has also conducted much research on the role of healthy diets, including low glycemic index diets, in the control of type 2 diabetes. Dr. Kendall has worked extensively with the food industry to develop healthy foods. He is a founding member of the International Carbohydrate Quality Consortium (ICQC), Executive Board Member of the Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group (DNSG) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), is on the Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Committee for Nutrition Therapy of the EASD and is a Director of the Toronto 3D Knowledge Synthesis and Clinical Trials foundation.
NNY KRIS-ETHERTON, Prof., RD., FAHA., FNLA., FASN., CL
The Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton is Distinguished Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research expertise is cardiovascular nutrition. She conducts controlled clinical nutrition studies designed to evaluate the effects of nutrients, bioactives and dietary patterns on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Dr. Kris-Etherton has served on national committees that have issued dietary guidelines (the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee and the 2002 National Academies Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Macronutrients and Cholesterol). She served on the 2nd Adult Treatment Panel of the National Cholesterol Education Program. As a member of the American Heart Association (AHA) Nutrition Committee, she has co-authored numerous Scientific Statements and Advisories that have made diet and lifestyle recommendations for the prevention and treatment of CVD. She also co-authored the National Lipid Association’s (NLA) recommendations for Patient-Centered Management of Dyslipidemia. She is Chair of the AHA Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health, and Past Chair of the AHA Nutrition Committee. Dr. Kris-Etherton is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the National Lipid Association (where she served as President), and the American Society for Nutrition. She has published over 350 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and has received numerous awards from the American Society for Nutrition, the American Oil Chemist’s Society, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the International Nut & Dried Fruit Council, the Northeast Lipid Association Chapter, and the National Lipid Association for her accomplishments and contributions to the profession.
GIUSEPPINA MANDALARI, PhD
University of Messina, Italy
Giusy Mandalari, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Messina, Italy. My main research interest involves the basic physiology underlying the digestion within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The bioaccessibility of nutrients and phytochemicals from various food matrices has important implications in the areas of disease prevention and management. My main research interests are: simulated in vivo studies of human digestion in relation to gut health; investigation of the pharmacological and antimicrobial properties of plant extracts through in vitro and in vivo studies; evaluation of the prebiotic effect of functional foods on the intestinal microbiota. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Science. I serve as Scientific Editor for the Journal “Nutrients”.
Anoop Misra, MD, Prof.
DAGFINN AUNE
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Nutrition, Bjørknes University College, Oslo, Norway
Dagfinn Aune is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London and an associate professor at the Department of Nutrition, Bjørknes University College in Oslo, Norway. He completed his PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2016 and has a MSc in Nutrition from the University of Oslo from 2008. He has since 2010 worked for several years in the Continuous Update Project of the World Cancer Research Fund, updating the systematic reviews and meta-analyses that were the basis for the report Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Risk of Cancer: A Global Perspective that was published in 2007 and contributed to the Third Expert Report that was published in 2018. He has worked extensively on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of nutrition and lifestyle factors and chronic disease prevention. He has a special interest in the role of plant foods and adiposity as risk factors for chronic diseases and premature mortality. He has a wide network of collaborators globally and has been involved in analyses in the EPIC study, the HUNT study and the UK Biobank study.
DAVID BAUER, PhD
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center located in Beltsville, Maryland
David J. Baer, Ph.D., is a Supervisory Research Physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center located in Beltsville, Maryland. He serves as the Research Leader for the Center’s Food Components and Health Laboratory.
Dr. Baer conducts controlled dietary intervention studies to investigate the relationship between diet and the risk for chronic degenerative diseases, especially cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes in people. Some of the dietary interventions he has investigated include the effects of different types of protein, fats and fatty acids, fiber, margarine, butter, plant sterols, salad dressings, nuts, whole grains, berries, alcohol and tea on overall nutrition and health. His publications include important findings from randomized controlled trials on the effects of different fatty acids on risk for cardiovascular disease, especially several large trials investigating partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and trans fatty acids. He was among the first to demonstrate how diets impact systemic inflammation, and this research was recognized in 2004 when he was the inaugural recipient of the Pan American Prize on Nutrition, Science and Food Technology. In 2012, he began publishing several peer-reviewed articles describing the energy value of different nuts using an approach developed in his Laboratory. This research updates methods that have been used since the late 1890s to label the energy (calorie) content of foods. He served as the Guest Editor for the journal Nutrients’ special issue titled “Nut Consumption for Human Health.” In addition to dietary intervention studies, Baer is involved in research studies to validate food survey methodologies and to develop new methods for dietary assessment. Dr. Baer earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and his Masters and doctorate in nutrition from Michigan State University.
NÁGILA R T DAMASCENO, Prof, PhD, MSc, Prof, PhD, MSc
Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Sao Paulo University, Brazil
Dr Nágila Damasceno is the Director of the Division of Nutrition and Dietetics at University Hospital of the Sao Paulo University, Brazil and Associate Professor of Clinical Nutrition at the same university. Her research interests include experimental and clinical trials about omega-3, olive oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil in cardiovascular diseases, neuroscience (epilepsy and multiple sclerosis) and breast cancer. She has provided her expertise in nutrition for different expert painels, including Brazilian Cardiology Society (SBC), Brazilian Food and Nutrition Society (SBAN) and Cardiology Society of Sao Paulo (SOCESP) and as member of Advisor Board of these institutions contribute to Position Statement on Fat Consumption and Cardiovascular Health (2021). Dr Damasceno is full professor at the post-graduation program on Nutrition and Public Health at Sao Paulo University. She is also an Executive Member of Department of Nutrition in Cardiology at Cardiology Society of Sao Paulo. For five years, Dr Damasceno coordinated the International Program of Scientific Cooperation between Sweden and Brazil (CAPESP-STINT) in nutrition area, promoting exchanging of professors, researchers and post-graduate students between both countries. In 2020, she expanded her international collaborations to Germany-SHIP Trend and Brazilian-SHIP Cohorts focused in nutrition-genetic determinants of the cardiovascular diseases. As researcher of the National Council of Research (CNPq) and The Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) coordinated more than 30 projects and supervised more than 60 post-graduate students. In 2003 and 2012 received the CAPES AWARD for excellence in Nutrition Research. Since 2010, Dr Damasceno is Co-Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Complex Fluids dedicating part of her time to investigate the role of bioactive substances in foods on oxidative stress and inflammation on lipid metabolism, and structure and functionality of low- and high-density lipoproteins. In addition to the original publications, Dr Damasceno is editor of four books and eighteen book chapters.
BRADLEY BOLLING, PhD.
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Bradley Bolling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and the Fritz Friday Chair of Vegetable Processing Research, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned undergraduate and PhD degrees in Food Science at UW-Madison and received postdoctoral training in Nutritional Sciences at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research center on Aging at Tufts University. Dr. Bolling’s research focus is on determining the role of foods and phytochemicals in preventing chronic diseases. His current research aims are to characterize how interindividual variability in metabolic pathways of dietary bioactive components influences efficacy of dietary interventions; characterize the ability of bioactives to prevent chronic inflammation associated with obesity and auto-immune disease; and determine the abundance and variability of bioactive components in the food supply. He is presently utilizing human intervention studies, cellular studies, and animal models to accomplish these objectives. Dr. Bolling is a Scientific Editor for the Journal of Food Science and Chair-Elect of the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Food Science, include a graduate course about dietary bioactives.
GRAHAM FINLAYSON, PhD.
Prof. Graham Finlayson is a psychologist and Professor in Psychobiology in the Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Leeds, UK. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship at Steno Diabetes Centre Copenhagen. His research focuses on understanding what underpins the control of human appetite and why people overeat. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed research papers with +9,000 total citations.
Homepage: http://aceb-research.leeds.ac.uk/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/graham-finlayson-16955249
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=O5xK_NsAAAAJ
MICHELLE DALTON, PhD
School of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, Leeds Trinity Univeristy, Leeds, England, United Kingdom.
Dr. Michelle Dalton is the Deputy Head of Psychology at Leeds Trinity University, UK. Prior to joining Leeds Trinity in 2017, Michelle was a postdoctoral researcher in the Appetite Control and Energy Balance lab at the University of Leeds. Her research specialises in the biopsychological investigation of appetite control and eating behaviour with a focus on examining individual differences in susceptibility to weight gain.
HEINZ FREISLING, PhD
Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) in Lyon, France
Dr. Heinz Freisling is a Scientist and Team leader of the Nutrition, Cancer and Multimorbidity Team at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) in Lyon, France. He earned undergraduate and PhD degrees in molecular nutrition and nutritional epidemiology at the University of Vienna. During his stay as a post-doctoral researcher and later on as a Scientist at the IARC-WHO, he assumed a leading role in dietary exposure assessment to answer scientific questions related to diet and health, in particular with regard to cancer prevention. His current research interests are focused on understanding the role of diet, nutrition, and metabolic health, and their interplay with genetic susceptibility in the etiology of major chronic diseases, in particular cancer, but also diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. This will be done in large, mostly prospective, observational studies that are accessible for research such as the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort, the UK Biobank, but also primary care databases and genetic consortia. He is currently coordinating five large on-going research projects in cancer epidemiology as Principal Investigator. An important feature of these projects is the aim to go beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of data acquisition and statistical analysis. One example of this in his research is the application of a “triangulation” approach combining two or more statistical techniques as a means to reduce uncertainty and identify potential causal factors in relation to disease risk. His scientific competence is exemplified by over 170 peer-reviewed publications in major scientific journals, with many as first or senior author.
MARTA GUASCH-FERRÉ, PhD.
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Guasch-Ferré is a Research Scientist in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Guasch-Ferré earned her PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism from the Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. She previously earned a BS and Master in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the same university. Her research interests include the role of Mediterranean diet, nuts, olive oil and dietary fatty acids on type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and mortality. She has conducted extensive research on this field in the framework of the PREDIMED trial and three large U.S. prospective cohorts, the Nurses’ Health Study I and II and Health Professionals Follow-up Study. During her postdoctoral training at the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, she has integrated metabolomics approaches to gain insights into the biological mechanisms underlying the associations between dietary and lifestyle factors with chronic diseases. Her ongoing research aims include bringing an individualized therapeutic lifestyle approach to the clinical treatment of cardiometabolic diseases by integrating dietary and lifestyle factors, phenotypic and omics data for the prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She is the PI of the project ‘Mechanisms underlying metabolomics profiles and type 2 diabetes’ granted by the American Diabetes Association.
CRYSTAL HASKELL-RAMSAY, Prof.
Crystal is a Professor of Biological Psychology based in the Psychology Department of Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research focuses on the impact of nutrition on cognition and wellbeing. She has over 15 years’ experience in the assessment of cognitive performance, with her early work exploring the neurocognitive effects of caffeinated plants. Her current research focuses on the biobehavioural effects of polyphenolic compounds from sources including coffee, cocoa, berries and nuts. She is also interested in the impact of food insecurity on wellbeing as well as the relationship between women’s wellbeing and nutrition at key stages across the lifespan.F
FRANK HU. Prof.
Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Channing Division for Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, MA, USA.
Dr. Frank Hu is Chair of Department of Nutrition, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as Co-director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at Harvard and Director of Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Epidemiology and Genetics Core. Dr. Hu is the recipient of the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology by the American Diabetes Association in 2010 and the American Heart Association’s Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer in 2018. He has served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease, the AHA/ACC Obesity Guideline Expert Panel, and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS. He has served on the editorial boards of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
DAVD JENIKINS, Prof.
University of Toronto & St. Michael’s Hospital.
Prof. David J.A. Jenkins is an University Professor, and Canada Research Chair, in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Medicine, a staff physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, and a Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital. He was educated at Oxford University, obtaining his DM, DPhil and DSc. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He has served on committees in Canada and the United States that formulated nutritional guidelines for the treatment of diabetes and recommendations for fiber and macronutrient intake under the joint US-Canada DRI system (RDAs) of the National Academy of Sciences. He also served as a member of Agriculture Canada’s Science Advisory Board (2004-2009) on the future direction of Canada’s agriculture and agricultural research. He has spent much time working with the food industry to develop products for the supermarket shelf and, for example, helped to initiate a major Canadian supermarket line of heart healthy foods. His research area is the use of diet in the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia and diabetes. He has over 350 original publications on these and related topics. His team was the first to define and explore the concept of the glycemic index of foods and demonstrate the breadth of metabolic effects of viscous soluble fiber, including blood glucose and cholesterol lowering. His group developed the cholesterol lowering concept of the dietary portfolio that has entered guidelines in many jurisdictions (e.g. CCS, Heart UK etc.). He believes in the therapeutic value of plant based diets and that diets have to be environmentally sustainable.
JORDI JÚLVEZ
Dr Jordi Julvez, Group Leader at the Institute of Health Research Pere Virgili (IISPV)
He achieved his bachelor’s degree in Psychology at University of Barcelona (UB) in 1999, a Master of Clinical Neuropsychology at the UB in 2002 and a PhD. in Psychology and Epidemiology at the University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2007. He worked in the field of epidemiology and developmental neurotoxicity at the Harvard School of Public Health (2008-2011), where he has an affiliation as visiting scientist. He was awarded a 2020-Miguel Servet tipo II tenure-track stipend at the IISPV to establish his group, Environmental Epidemiology, Nutrition and Developmental Neuropsychology (NeuroÈpia). His team’s focus is to determine what environmental and nutritional factors may affect neurodevelopment from cradle-to-grave, with a focus in Epidemiology and Neuropsychology. He is PI of several projects such as Walnuts, Omega-Brain and NutInBrain (https://smartsnack.isglobal.org/en/homemain-3/), WP6 Co-leader and a Partner of the H2020 LifeCycle and Equal-Life projects as well as collaborator of INMA, HELIX, Phenotype, Breathe, BISC and ATHLETE projects.
CYRIL KENDALL, Prof.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada
Prof. Cyril WC Kendall is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, St. Michael’s Hospital and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan. He was educated at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his Honors BSc, MSc and PhD. His primary research interest is the role of diet in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Dr. Kendall has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. His research on the Portfolio Diet, which combines cholesterol-lowering food components, has been included in the US National Cholesterol Education Program (ATP III) and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines as an effective dietary strategy for cholesterol reduction. He has also conducted much research on the role of healthy diets, including low glycemic index diets, in the control of type 2 diabetes. Dr. Kendall has worked extensively with the food industry to develop healthy foods. He is a founding member of the International Carbohydrate Quality Consortium (ICQC), Executive Board Member of the Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group (DNSG) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), is on the Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Committee for Nutrition Therapy of the EASD and is a Director of the Toronto 3D Knowledge Synthesis and Clinical Trials foundation.
NNY KRIS-ETHERTON, Prof., RD., FAHA., FNLA., FASN., CL
The Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton is Distinguished Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research expertise is cardiovascular nutrition. She conducts controlled clinical nutrition studies designed to evaluate the effects of nutrients, bioactives and dietary patterns on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Dr. Kris-Etherton has served on national committees that have issued dietary guidelines (the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee and the 2002 National Academies Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Macronutrients and Cholesterol). She served on the 2nd Adult Treatment Panel of the National Cholesterol Education Program. As a member of the American Heart Association (AHA) Nutrition Committee, she has co-authored numerous Scientific Statements and Advisories that have made diet and lifestyle recommendations for the prevention and treatment of CVD. She also co-authored the National Lipid Association’s (NLA) recommendations for Patient-Centered Management of Dyslipidemia. She is Chair of the AHA Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health, and Past Chair of the AHA Nutrition Committee. Dr. Kris-Etherton is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the National Lipid Association (where she served as President), and the American Society for Nutrition. She has published over 350 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and has received numerous awards from the American Society for Nutrition, the American Oil Chemist’s Society, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the International Nut & Dried Fruit Council, the Northeast Lipid Association Chapter, and the National Lipid Association for her accomplishments and contributions to the profession.
GIUSEPPINA MANDALARI, PhD
University of Messina, Italy
Giusy Mandalari, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Messina, Italy. My main research interest involves the basic physiology underlying the digestion within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The bioaccessibility of nutrients and phytochemicals from various food matrices has important implications in the areas of disease prevention and management. My main research interests are: simulated in vivo studies of human digestion in relation to gut health; investigation of the pharmacological and antimicrobial properties of plant extracts through in vitro and in vivo studies; evaluation of the prebiotic effect of functional foods on the intestinal microbiota. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Science. I serve as Scientific Editor for the Journal “Nutrients”.
Anoop Misra, MD, Prof.
DAGFINN AUNE
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Nutrition, Bjørknes University College, Oslo, Norway
Dagfinn Aune is a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London and an associate professor at the Department of Nutrition, Bjørknes University College in Oslo, Norway. He completed his PhD at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2016 and has a MSc in Nutrition from the University of Oslo from 2008. He has since 2010 worked for several years in the Continuous Update Project of the World Cancer Research Fund, updating the systematic reviews and meta-analyses that were the basis for the report Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Risk of Cancer: A Global Perspective that was published in 2007 and contributed to the Third Expert Report that was published in 2018. He has worked extensively on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of nutrition and lifestyle factors and chronic disease prevention. He has a special interest in the role of plant foods and adiposity as risk factors for chronic diseases and premature mortality. He has a wide network of collaborators globally and has been involved in analyses in the EPIC study, the HUNT study and the UK Biobank study.
DAVID BAUER, PhD
U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center located in Beltsville, Maryland
David J. Baer, Ph.D., is a Supervisory Research Physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center located in Beltsville, Maryland. He serves as the Research Leader for the Center’s Food Components and Health Laboratory.
Dr. Baer conducts controlled dietary intervention studies to investigate the relationship between diet and the risk for chronic degenerative diseases, especially cardiovascular disease, cancer and diabetes in people. Some of the dietary interventions he has investigated include the effects of different types of protein, fats and fatty acids, fiber, margarine, butter, plant sterols, salad dressings, nuts, whole grains, berries, alcohol and tea on overall nutrition and health. His publications include important findings from randomized controlled trials on the effects of different fatty acids on risk for cardiovascular disease, especially several large trials investigating partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and trans fatty acids. He was among the first to demonstrate how diets impact systemic inflammation, and this research was recognized in 2004 when he was the inaugural recipient of the Pan American Prize on Nutrition, Science and Food Technology. In 2012, he began publishing several peer-reviewed articles describing the energy value of different nuts using an approach developed in his Laboratory. This research updates methods that have been used since the late 1890s to label the energy (calorie) content of foods. He served as the Guest Editor for the journal Nutrients’ special issue titled “Nut Consumption for Human Health.” In addition to dietary intervention studies, Baer is involved in research studies to validate food survey methodologies and to develop new methods for dietary assessment. Dr. Baer earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and his Masters and doctorate in nutrition from Michigan State University.
NÁGILA R T DAMASCENO, Prof, PhD, MSc, Prof, PhD, MSc
Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Public Health, Sao Paulo University, Brazil
Dr Nágila Damasceno is the Director of the Division of Nutrition and Dietetics at University Hospital of the Sao Paulo University, Brazil and Associate Professor of Clinical Nutrition at the same university. Her research interests include experimental and clinical trials about omega-3, olive oil, soybean oil and sunflower oil in cardiovascular diseases, neuroscience (epilepsy and multiple sclerosis) and breast cancer. She has provided her expertise in nutrition for different expert painels, including Brazilian Cardiology Society (SBC), Brazilian Food and Nutrition Society (SBAN) and Cardiology Society of Sao Paulo (SOCESP) and as member of Advisor Board of these institutions contribute to Position Statement on Fat Consumption and Cardiovascular Health (2021). Dr Damasceno is full professor at the post-graduation program on Nutrition and Public Health at Sao Paulo University. She is also an Executive Member of Department of Nutrition in Cardiology at Cardiology Society of Sao Paulo. For five years, Dr Damasceno coordinated the International Program of Scientific Cooperation between Sweden and Brazil (CAPESP-STINT) in nutrition area, promoting exchanging of professors, researchers and post-graduate students between both countries. In 2020, she expanded her international collaborations to Germany-SHIP Trend and Brazilian-SHIP Cohorts focused in nutrition-genetic determinants of the cardiovascular diseases. As researcher of the National Council of Research (CNPq) and The Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) coordinated more than 30 projects and supervised more than 60 post-graduate students. In 2003 and 2012 received the CAPES AWARD for excellence in Nutrition Research. Since 2010, Dr Damasceno is Co-Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Complex Fluids dedicating part of her time to investigate the role of bioactive substances in foods on oxidative stress and inflammation on lipid metabolism, and structure and functionality of low- and high-density lipoproteins. In addition to the original publications, Dr Damasceno is editor of four books and eighteen book chapters.
BRADLEY BOLLING, PhD.
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Bradley Bolling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and the Fritz Friday Chair of Vegetable Processing Research, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned undergraduate and PhD degrees in Food Science at UW-Madison and received postdoctoral training in Nutritional Sciences at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research center on Aging at Tufts University. Dr. Bolling’s research focus is on determining the role of foods and phytochemicals in preventing chronic diseases. His current research aims are to characterize how interindividual variability in metabolic pathways of dietary bioactive components influences efficacy of dietary interventions; characterize the ability of bioactives to prevent chronic inflammation associated with obesity and auto-immune disease; and determine the abundance and variability of bioactive components in the food supply. He is presently utilizing human intervention studies, cellular studies, and animal models to accomplish these objectives. Dr. Bolling is a Scientific Editor for the Journal of Food Science and Chair-Elect of the International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Food Science, include a graduate course about dietary bioactives.
GRAHAM FINLAYSON, PhD.
Prof. Graham Finlayson is a psychologist and Professor in Psychobiology in the Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Leeds, UK. He currently holds a Visiting Professorship at Steno Diabetes Centre Copenhagen. His research focuses on understanding what underpins the control of human appetite and why people overeat. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed research papers with +9,000 total citations.
Homepage: http://aceb-research.leeds.ac.uk/
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/graham-finlayson-16955249
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=O5xK_NsAAAAJ
MICHELLE DALTON, PhD
School of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies, Faculty of Social and Health Sciences, Leeds Trinity Univeristy, Leeds, England, United Kingdom.
Dr. Michelle Dalton is the Deputy Head of Psychology at Leeds Trinity University, UK. Prior to joining Leeds Trinity in 2017, Michelle was a postdoctoral researcher in the Appetite Control and Energy Balance lab at the University of Leeds. Her research specialises in the biopsychological investigation of appetite control and eating behaviour with a focus on examining individual differences in susceptibility to weight gain.
HEINZ FREISLING, PhD
Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) in Lyon, France
Dr. Heinz Freisling is a Scientist and Team leader of the Nutrition, Cancer and Multimorbidity Team at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) in Lyon, France. He earned undergraduate and PhD degrees in molecular nutrition and nutritional epidemiology at the University of Vienna. During his stay as a post-doctoral researcher and later on as a Scientist at the IARC-WHO, he assumed a leading role in dietary exposure assessment to answer scientific questions related to diet and health, in particular with regard to cancer prevention. His current research interests are focused on understanding the role of diet, nutrition, and metabolic health, and their interplay with genetic susceptibility in the etiology of major chronic diseases, in particular cancer, but also diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. This will be done in large, mostly prospective, observational studies that are accessible for research such as the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cohort, the UK Biobank, but also primary care databases and genetic consortia. He is currently coordinating five large on-going research projects in cancer epidemiology as Principal Investigator. An important feature of these projects is the aim to go beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of data acquisition and statistical analysis. One example of this in his research is the application of a “triangulation” approach combining two or more statistical techniques as a means to reduce uncertainty and identify potential causal factors in relation to disease risk. His scientific competence is exemplified by over 170 peer-reviewed publications in major scientific journals, with many as first or senior author.
MARTA GUASCH-FERRÉ, PhD.
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Guasch-Ferré is a Research Scientist in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston. Dr. Guasch-Ferré earned her PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism from the Rovira i Virgili University, Spain. She previously earned a BS and Master in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the same university. Her research interests include the role of Mediterranean diet, nuts, olive oil and dietary fatty acids on type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and mortality. She has conducted extensive research on this field in the framework of the PREDIMED trial and three large U.S. prospective cohorts, the Nurses’ Health Study I and II and Health Professionals Follow-up Study. During her postdoctoral training at the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, she has integrated metabolomics approaches to gain insights into the biological mechanisms underlying the associations between dietary and lifestyle factors with chronic diseases. Her ongoing research aims include bringing an individualized therapeutic lifestyle approach to the clinical treatment of cardiometabolic diseases by integrating dietary and lifestyle factors, phenotypic and omics data for the prevention of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She is the PI of the project ‘Mechanisms underlying metabolomics profiles and type 2 diabetes’ granted by the American Diabetes Association.
CRYSTAL HASKELL-RAMSAY, Prof.
Crystal is a Professor of Biological Psychology based in the Psychology Department of Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Her research focuses on the impact of nutrition on cognition and wellbeing. She has over 15 years’ experience in the assessment of cognitive performance, with her early work exploring the neurocognitive effects of caffeinated plants. Her current research focuses on the biobehavioural effects of polyphenolic compounds from sources including coffee, cocoa, berries and nuts. She is also interested in the impact of food insecurity on wellbeing as well as the relationship between women’s wellbeing and nutrition at key stages across the lifespan.F
FRANK HU. Prof.
Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. Channing Division for Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, MA, USA.
Dr. Frank Hu is Chair of Department of Nutrition, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He serves as Co-director of the Program in Obesity Epidemiology and Prevention at Harvard and Director of Boston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Epidemiology and Genetics Core. Dr. Hu is the recipient of the Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology by the American Diabetes Association in 2010 and the American Heart Association’s Ancel Keys Memorial Lecturer in 2018. He has served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease, the AHA/ACC Obesity Guideline Expert Panel, and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, USDA/HHS. He has served on the editorial boards of Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Diabetes Care, and Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Hu is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
DAVD JENIKINS, Prof.
University of Toronto & St. Michael’s Hospital.
Prof. David J.A. Jenkins is an University Professor, and Canada Research Chair, in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Medicine, a staff physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, and a Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital. He was educated at Oxford University, obtaining his DM, DPhil and DSc. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He has served on committees in Canada and the United States that formulated nutritional guidelines for the treatment of diabetes and recommendations for fiber and macronutrient intake under the joint US-Canada DRI system (RDAs) of the National Academy of Sciences. He also served as a member of Agriculture Canada’s Science Advisory Board (2004-2009) on the future direction of Canada’s agriculture and agricultural research. He has spent much time working with the food industry to develop products for the supermarket shelf and, for example, helped to initiate a major Canadian supermarket line of heart healthy foods. His research area is the use of diet in the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia and diabetes. He has over 350 original publications on these and related topics. His team was the first to define and explore the concept of the glycemic index of foods and demonstrate the breadth of metabolic effects of viscous soluble fiber, including blood glucose and cholesterol lowering. His group developed the cholesterol lowering concept of the dietary portfolio that has entered guidelines in many jurisdictions (e.g. CCS, Heart UK etc.). He believes in the therapeutic value of plant based diets and that diets have to be environmentally sustainable.
JORDI JÚLVEZ
Dr Jordi Julvez, Group Leader at the Institute of Health Research Pere Virgili (IISPV)
He achieved his bachelor’s degree in Psychology at University of Barcelona (UB) in 1999, a Master of Clinical Neuropsychology at the UB in 2002 and a PhD. in Psychology and Epidemiology at the University Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in 2007. He worked in the field of epidemiology and developmental neurotoxicity at the Harvard School of Public Health (2008-2011), where he has an affiliation as visiting scientist. He was awarded a 2020-Miguel Servet tipo II tenure-track stipend at the IISPV to establish his group, Environmental Epidemiology, Nutrition and Developmental Neuropsychology (NeuroÈpia). His team’s focus is to determine what environmental and nutritional factors may affect neurodevelopment from cradle-to-grave, with a focus in Epidemiology and Neuropsychology. He is PI of several projects such as Walnuts, Omega-Brain and NutInBrain (https://smartsnack.isglobal.org/en/homemain-3/), WP6 Co-leader and a Partner of the H2020 LifeCycle and Equal-Life projects as well as collaborator of INMA, HELIX, Phenotype, Breathe, BISC and ATHLETE projects.
CYRIL KENDALL, Prof.
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada
Prof. Cyril WC Kendall is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, St. Michael’s Hospital and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy and Nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan. He was educated at the University of Toronto, where he obtained his Honors BSc, MSc and PhD. His primary research interest is the role of diet in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Dr. Kendall has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. His research on the Portfolio Diet, which combines cholesterol-lowering food components, has been included in the US National Cholesterol Education Program (ATP III) and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines as an effective dietary strategy for cholesterol reduction. He has also conducted much research on the role of healthy diets, including low glycemic index diets, in the control of type 2 diabetes. Dr. Kendall has worked extensively with the food industry to develop healthy foods. He is a founding member of the International Carbohydrate Quality Consortium (ICQC), Executive Board Member of the Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group (DNSG) of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), is on the Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Committee for Nutrition Therapy of the EASD and is a Director of the Toronto 3D Knowledge Synthesis and Clinical Trials foundation.
NNY KRIS-ETHERTON, Prof., RD., FAHA., FNLA., FASN., CL
The Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton is Distinguished Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research expertise is cardiovascular nutrition. She conducts controlled clinical nutrition studies designed to evaluate the effects of nutrients, bioactives and dietary patterns on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Dr. Kris-Etherton has served on national committees that have issued dietary guidelines (the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Advisory Committee and the 2002 National Academies Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Macronutrients and Cholesterol). She served on the 2nd Adult Treatment Panel of the National Cholesterol Education Program. As a member of the American Heart Association (AHA) Nutrition Committee, she has co-authored numerous Scientific Statements and Advisories that have made diet and lifestyle recommendations for the prevention and treatment of CVD. She also co-authored the National Lipid Association’s (NLA) recommendations for Patient-Centered Management of Dyslipidemia. She is Chair of the AHA Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health, and Past Chair of the AHA Nutrition Committee. Dr. Kris-Etherton is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, the National Lipid Association (where she served as President), and the American Society for Nutrition. She has published over 350 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and has received numerous awards from the American Society for Nutrition, the American Oil Chemist’s Society, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the International Nut & Dried Fruit Council, the Northeast Lipid Association Chapter, and the National Lipid Association for her accomplishments and contributions to the profession.
GIUSEPPINA MANDALARI, PhD
University of Messina, Italy
Giusy Mandalari, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Messina, Italy. My main research interest involves the basic physiology underlying the digestion within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The bioaccessibility of nutrients and phytochemicals from various food matrices has important implications in the areas of disease prevention and management. My main research interests are: simulated in vivo studies of human digestion in relation to gut health; investigation of the pharmacological and antimicrobial properties of plant extracts through in vitro and in vivo studies; evaluation of the prebiotic effect of functional foods on the intestinal microbiota. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Science. I serve as Scientific Editor for the Journal “Nutrients”.
Anoop Misra, MD, Prof.