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Scientists
Andres Ardisson Korat, DSc
Scientist II
Thomas Biederer, PhD
Senior Scientist, Neuroscience and Aging Team
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, Senior Scientist, Vitamin K Team
Vitamin K status and chronic disease, bioavailability, food composition
Lisa Ceglia, MD
Scientist II, Bone Metabolism Team
Effects of dietary and hormonal factors on muscle metabolism and morphology
Sai Krupa Das, PhD
Senior Scientist, Energy Metabolism Team
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
MD
Senior Scientist, Bone Metabolism Team
Dietary and hormonal determinants of bone and muscle mass and function
Naglaa El-Abbadi, PhD
Scientist III, Nutrition Epidemiology
Sustainable diets and food systems
Roger A. Fielding, PhD
PhD
Senior Scientist, Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia Team
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 Team
Vitamin K bioavailability and role of vitamin K in inflammation and insulin resistance
Andrew S. Greenberg, MD
M.D.
Senior Scientist, Obesity and Metabolism Team, Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Professor of Metabolism and Nutrition
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, Nutritional Epidemiology Team
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, PhD
Senior Scientist
Developing workflows and informatics tools to advance personalized analysis of future health
Chao-Qiang Lai, PhD
Research Molecular Biologist/Geneticist, Nutrition and Genomics Team
Nutrition, genetics, and healthy aging; epigenomics, gene by diet interaction, risk prediction and prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic disease
Stefania Lamon-Fava, MD, PhD
Scientist I, Cardiovascular Nutrition Team
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
DSc
Senior Scientist, Cardiovascular Nutrition Team
Dietary fatty acids, nutrition, lipoproteins, and cardiovascular disease risk, biomarkers of nutrient intake and disease risk, nutrition policy
Michael Lustgarten, PhD
Scientist II, Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia Team
The role of the gut microbiome and serum metabolome on muscle mass and function in older adults
Joel B. Mason, MD
MD
Senior Scientist, Vitamins and Carcinogenesis Team
Carbon nutrients (modulation of carcinogenesis); Obesity (modulation of carcinogenesis, colonic microbiome and carcinogenesis)
Nirupa Matthan, PhD
Scientist I, Cardiovascular Nutrition Team
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, Nutrition Epidemiology
Machine Learning and Data Analytics
José M. Ordovás, PhD
Senior Scientist, Nutrition and Genomics Team
Molecular biology, nutrition, and genetics; lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease risk
Alexander Panda, MD, PhD, MPH
MD, PhD, MPH
Scientist II, Nutritional Immunology Team
Age-associated defects in localization and trafficking of Toll-like receptor 1
Laurence D. Parnell, PhD
Computational Biologist, Nutrition and Genomics Team
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
PhD
Scientist II, Nutrition and Vision Research Team
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, Vitamin K Team
Understanding the role of vitamin K in age-related disease
Barbara Shukitt-Hale, PhD
Research Psychologist, USDA, ARS Neuroscience and Aging Team
Age-related behavioral (cognition and motor performance) and neurochemical changes and nutritional treatments
Xiang-Dong Wang, MD, PhD
MD, PhD
Senior Scientist, Nutrition and Cancer Biology Team
Carotenoids, retinoids and cancer prevention
Elizabeth Whitcomb, PhD
Scientist III, Nutrition and Vision Research Team
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, Basic Biology of Aging Team
Tong Zheng, PhD
Research Scientist I, Neuroscience and Aging Team
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.