Research/Areas of Interest
Fat-soluble vitamins, food composition, metabolism, brain aging
Education
- PhD, McGill University, Canada
Biography
Dr. Sarah Booth is Director of the HNRCA at Tufts University as well as Senior Scientist and leader of the Diet & Aging Brain, Sensory Systems directive.
Dr. Booth is an international leader in vitamin K research. Among her many research accomplishments, Dr. Booth developed the methodology for measuring vitamin K forms in a variety of food matrices and her research team continues to generate vitamin K food composition data that are incorporated into national nutrient databases. Her research team has also studied novel roles for vitamin K in calcification disorders and kidney disease. Dr. Booth and her team were the first to examine vitamin D levels in the brain and recently discovered that low levels of vitamins D and K are associated with cognitive decline.
Dr. Booth has received multiple awards in recognition of her research, the most recent being the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) E.V. McCollum Award for a Senior Investigator. Dr. Booth is a professor in the Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition Program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Dr. Booth was the Chair of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and is the 2024-2025 President of the American Society of Nutrition. Dr. Booth is also on the editorial board of Annual Reviews of Nutrition.