Scientists

Andres Ardisson Korat

The role of diet in healthy aging

Sarah L. Booth

Center Director

Fat-soluble vitamins, food composition, metabolism, brain aging  

Perinur Bozaykut Eker

Aging biology, long-lived species, nutrient-sensing and energy metabolism, cellular senescence

Sai Krupa Das

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

Senior Scientist

Dietary and hormonal determinants of bone and muscle mass and function

Naglaa El-Abbadi

Sustainable diets and food systems

Roger A. Fielding

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

Research Scientist I

Vitamin K bioavailability and role of vitamin K in inflammation and insulin resistance

Andrew S. Greenberg

Senior Scientist

The molecular, metabolic, and hormonal regulation of aging, obesity and associated complications including insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis.  

Paul F. Jacques

Senior Scientist

Diet patterns and diet quality, protein, hydration, and B vitamins and their relation to healthy aging

Bruce Kristal

Senior Scientist

Developing workflows and informatics tools to advance personalized analysis of future health

Chao-Qiang Lai

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

Dietary lipids, inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and diseases of the central nervous system

Jennifer Lee

Aging and Gut Health/Function

Alice H. Lichtenstein

Senior Scientist

Dietary modification and cardiometabolic risk, biomarkers of nutrient intake and disease risk, nutrition policy, systematic reviews

Joel B. Mason

Senior Scientist

Impact of 1-carbon nutrients and obesity on carcinogenesis and cancer risk; B12/folate interactions

Nirupa Matthan

Nutrition and cardiometabolic health, dietary intervention studies, gut microbiome, diet quality biomarkers, metabolite signatures, fatty acid profiling, cholesterol and bile acid metabolism

Eric Miller

Senior Scientist

Machine Learning and Data Analytics

José M. Ordovás

Senior Scientist

Molecular biology, nutrition, and genetics; lipoproteins and cardiovascular disease risk

Laurence D. Parnell

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

Senior Scientist

Systems biology of aging in genetically variable populations

Sheldon Rowan

The role of diet and nutrition in the development of age-related eye disease, particularly age-related macular degeneration

Edward Saltzman

Medical Director, Metabolic Research Unit

Precision Nutrition

Kyla Shea

Micronutrients and diet-related metabolites, musculoskeletal and neurodegenerative diseases of aging, use of digital-health technologies in healthy aging

Barbara Shukitt-Hale

Research Psychologist, USDA

Age-related behavioral (cognition and motor performance) and neurochemical changes and nutritional treatments

Xiang-Dong Wang

Senior Scientist

Carotenoids, retinoids and chronic disease prevention

Christopher Wiley

The role of metabolism in aging at the cellular level

Tong Zheng

Research Scientist I

Impact of nutritional supplements on the aging brain, especially in maintaining mobility and cognitive functions and preventing age-related neurological diseases