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Scientists
Andres Ardisson Korat
DSc
Scientist II
Thomas Biederer
Senior Scientist
The biology of synapses, the cellular structures that connect neurons into networks, and how they are supported by bioactive dietary compounds
Sarah L. Booth
PhD
Director
Vitamin K status and chronic disease, bioavailability, food composition
Lisa Ceglia
MD
Scientist II
Effects of dietary and hormonal factors on muscle metabolism and morphology
Sai Krupa Das
PhD
Senior Scientist
Energy metabolism; calorie restriction and nutritional modulation of aging, obesity and body weight regulation in humans; body composition, dietary intake capture methodology.
Bess Dawson-Hughes
MD
Senior Scientist
Dietary and hormonal determinants of bone and muscle mass and function
Naglaa El-Abbadi
PhD
Scientist III
Sustainable diets and food systems
Roger A. Fielding
PhD
Senior Scientist
Impact of exercise and physical activity on successful human aging; skeletal muscle alterations with advancing age in disabled and non-disabled populations; and age-related alterations in the control of skeletal muscle protein turnover
Xueyan Fu
PhD
Research Scientist I
Vitamin K bioavailability and role of vitamin K in inflammation and insulin resistance
Andrew S. Greenberg
MD
Senior Scientist
Etiology of obesity and its complications; the role of inflammation in metabolic disorders and the regulation of adipocyte metabolism, inulin resistance, and diabetes
Paul F. Jacques
DSc
Senior Scientist
Diet patterns and diet quality, protein, hydration, and B vitamins and their relation to healthy aging assessed through maintenance of physical function, and cardiometabolic health and cognitive health
Bruce Kristal
Senior Scientist
Developing workflows and informatics tools to advance personalized analysis of future health
Chao-Qiang Lai
PhD
Research Molecular Biologist/Geneticist
Nutrition, genetics, and healthy aging; epigenomics, gene by diet interaction, risk prediction and prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic disease
Stefania Lamon-Fava
Scientist I
Nutritional and hormonal regulation of the expression of genes involved in lipoprotein metabolism. Omega-3 fatty acids, inflammation and cardiometabolic risk.
Jennifer Lee
PhD
Scientist II
Aging and Gut Health/Function
Alice H. Lichtenstein
DSc
Senior Scientist
Dietary fatty acids, nutrition, lipoproteins, and cardiovascular disease risk, biomarkers of nutrient intake and disease risk, nutrition policy
Michael Lustgarten
PhD
Scientist II
The role of the gut microbiome and serum metabolome on muscle mass and function in older adults
Joel B. Mason
MD
Senior Scientist
Carbon nutrients (modulation of carcinogenesis); Obesity (modulation of carcinogenesis, colonic microbiome and carcinogenesis)
Nirupa Matthan
PhD
Scientist I
Nutrition and cardiovascular disease, dietary fatty acids, cholesterol and bile acid metabolism, fatty acid and lipoprotein kinetics, sphingolipids, plant sterols, glycemic index
Eric Miller
PhD
Senior Scientist
Machine Learning and Data Analytics
José M. Ordovás
PhD
Senior Scientist
Molecular biology, nutrition, and genetics; lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease risk
Alexander Panda
MD, PhD, MPH
Scientist II
Age-associated defects in localization and trafficking of Toll-like receptor 1
Laurence D. Parnell
PhD
Computational Biologist
To understand how the human genome and its numerous genetic polymorphisms interpret the lifestyle of the individual – diet and physical activity among others – in ways that affect risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and obesity. This is done with computational tools and databases, with a goal of describing factors pertinent to personalized nutrition.
Daniel Promislow
D.Phil.
Senior Scientist
Systems biology of aging in genetically variable populations
Sheldon Rowan
PhD
Scientist II
The role of the dietary glycemia in the development of age-related macular degeneration and its role in aging, metabolism and microbiome. Discovery of networks that involve diet, multiple metabolites and the microbiome. Role of the ubiquitin proteolysis pathway in regulating lens development and differentiation. Elucidation of molecular mechanisms that direct lens fiber cell denucleation
Kyla Shea
PhD
Scientist I
Understanding the role of vitamin K in age-related disease
Barbara Shukitt-Hale
PhD
Research Psychologist, USDA
Age-related behavioral (cognition and motor performance) and neurochemical changes and nutritional treatments
Xiang-Dong Wang
MD, PhD
Senior Scientist
Carotenoids, retinoids and cancer prevention
Elizabeth Whitcomb
PhD
Scientist III
Defining the function of specific ubiquitinating enzymes in regulation of cell division and differentiation in lens and retina cells/tissues; determining roles for the ubiquitin pathway in recognition and removal of damaged proteins
Christopher Wiley
PhD
Scientist II
Tong Zheng
PhD
Research Scientist I
Characterization of neural stem cells that may be appropriate as therapeutic sources as well as in vivo and in vitro bioassays to test the role of nutritional supplements in maintaining brain health and preventing age-related neurological diseases.