Artemis P. Simopoulos
USA
Dr. Artemis P. Simopoulos is the founder and president of the Center for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, a nonprofit educational organization in Washington, DC, since 1990. She is also the founder and president of the International Society of Nutrigenetics/ Nutrigenomics (ISNN) and founder and chair of the World Council on Nutrition, Fitness and Health (WCNFH) since 2005.
Her investigation area is on the nutritional aspects of genetic and endocrine disorders, evolutionary aspects of diet and fatty acids, and the importance of a balanced ratio of omega-6/omega-3 fatty acids in health and disease and in growth and development. She is the author of The Omega Diet (HarperCollins, 1999) and has edited numerous books and journal supplements, in addition to publishing over 300 scientific papers.
Daniel J. Hoffman
USA
Dr. Daniel J. Hoffman is Professor from the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of New Jersey. The overall aim of his research area is to improve the understanding of biological and environmental factors that promote obesity and chronic diseases. On the biological side, he and his colleagues are studying how changes in substrate oxidation interact with stress responses and contribute to body fat distribution. His research group is collaborating with investigators at the University of São Paulo, Brazil and the University of Southampton, UK where we have access to two large, unique cohorts.
Currently, he is also professional member of the following societies: American Society for Nutritional Sciences, Society for International Nutrition Research, Society for the Developmental Origins of Health and Adult Disease, Fundación Colombiana de Obesidad (FUNCOBES) and Society for the Study of Human Biology.
Hans-Rudolf Berthoud
USA
Dr. Berthoud is Professor from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. He is primarily interested in the role of the nervous system in the processes maintaining energy homeostasis and nutrient intake. This includes the receptors and pathways that allow the peripheral nervous system and the brain to sense the internal metabolic state and availability of important nutrients as well as the external food environment, the neural circuits integrating this information, and the behavioral, autonomic, and endocrine effector pathways leading to regulatory actions. Interests thus impinge on the areas of obesity and anorexia, gastrointestinal and liver physiology, gut-brain interactions, autonomic nervous system, cognitive neurosciences, taste physiology, and functional foods.
Dr. Berthoud is also member of Editorial Boards of reputed journals, such as Appetite, Endocrinology and International Journal of Obesity, as well as is referee of 25 scientific journals.
Juliana T. Grazini dos Santos
Brasil
Profa. Dra. Juliana T. Grazini dos Santos - nutricionista, mestre pela UNIFESP, doutora em Informação e Comunicação/ Popularização Cientifica/ Jornalismo Cientifico pelo Universidade Paris 7 (Denis Diderot), Presidente da Associação Francesa Verakis, que trabalha com mediação e popularização das ciências dos alimentos, alimentação e nutrição; coordenadora convidada das Universidades do Porto, de Paris e da Espanha; consultora de jornais, revistas e canias de televisão na Europa.
Livia A. Carvalho
UK
Dr. Livia A. Carvalho is Senior Research Associate and Inflame-BEAT Principal Investigator in the Department of Epidemiology at the University College London, UK. Since 2004 she has several Post-graduate teaching duties at the Institute of Psychiatry, KCL including the MSc Course in "Research Methods in Psychiatry", the MSc Course in “Mental Health Studies”, the MSc in "Neuroscience" and at the MRCPsych the Post Graduate teaching to psychiatrists. She is also towards completion of the Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice Diploma at King’s College London.
Luis Alberto Moreno Aznar
Spain
Luis A. Moreno is Professor of Public Health at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He is also Visiting Professor of Excellence at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) and affiliated member at the Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity. He did his training as Medical Doctor and his PhD thesis at the University of Zaragoza. He studied Human Nutrition and Public and Community Health at the University of Nancy (France). He has participated in several research projects supported by the Spanish Ministry of Health, and the European commission (HELENA, IDEFICS, EURRECCA, ENERGY, ToyBox and iFamily). He has published more than 250 papers in peer reviewed journals. He is a former member of the ESPGHAN Committee of Nutrition.
Robert A. Rastall
UK
Robert A. Rastall is Head of the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Reading in the UK and also holds the post of Professor of Biotechnology. He has a BSc in Applied Biology and a PhD in Microbial Biochemistry from the University of Greenwich, London. He held research fellowships in the field of carbohydrate bioengineering at the University of Westminster until joining the University of Reading in 1993.
Professor Rastall now leads a personal research team developing novel enzymatic manufacturing technologies for functional carbohydrates targeted at gut health. His research is focused on understanding structure-function relationships in prebiotic carbohydrates and the application of that knowledge to the rational development of functionally enhanced prebiotics. He is also developing concepts around the rational targeting of symbiotic to specific health outcomes.
Susan Ozanne
UK
Dr. Susan Ozanne is a Reader in Developmental Endocrinology in the Institute of Metabolic Science Metabolic Research Laboratories at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K. Her research interests are focused on understanding the mechanistic basis of the relationship between suboptimal early nutrition and growth and risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease in later life. Initially her work was directed towards understanding how under-nutrition during fetal life influenced long-term health but her research has now expanded to include studying the link between maternal over-nutrition and obesity on the long-term health of her offspring. Her research group works on animal models of early dietary manipulation as well as on biopsy material from low birth weight humans.
Dr. Ozanne is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed full papers on the early origins of health and disease and is an elected member of the council of the Society for the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease.