Nutrition and Food Science: Be Part of the Solution

Graduate Faculty in Nutrition

Seventeen faculty members constitute the Graduate Faculty in Nutrition. Their expertise includes feeding patterns and glucoregulation, statistical analysis, obesity research, nutritional biotanthropology, international nutrition, health communications, carotenoid metabolism, diet and cancer prevention, regulation of energy metabolism, eldery populations and chronic disease, and trace mineral metabolim during pregnancy and lactation.

Liangli (Lucy) Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science and Director, Graduate Program in Nutrition
Research Areas:nutraceuticals and functional foods, food chemistry and enzymology, food and nutraceutical analysis, developing value-added utilization of agricultural products, by-products, and by-products from food processing
Primary courses taught: NFSC 112-Food: Science and Technlogy, NFSC 423-Food Chemistry Laboratory, NFSC 678G-Nutraceutical and Nutritional Chemistry
Email: lyu5@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-0761

Thomas W. Castonguay, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: dietary preferences, feeding patterns, glucoregulation, and neuroscience and nutrition
Primary courses taught: NFSC 100-Elements of Nutrition, NFSC 450-Food and Nutrient Analysis, NFSC 630-Nutritional Aspects of Energy Balance, NFSC 698-Colloquium
Email: twc@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4503

Wen-Hsing Cheng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: molecular mechanisms of DNA damage response associated with aging and cancer, selenium regulation on genomic stability
Email: whcheng@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2940

Larry W. Douglass, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences
Research Areas: design and analysis of nutrition experiments, applied sampling problems, the adaptation of evaluation of statistical techniques for data analysis
Primary courses taught: BIOM 301-Introduction to Biometrics, BIOM 601-Biostatistics I, BIOM 602-Biostatistics II
Email: ldouglass@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1405

Susan K. Fried, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Gerontology, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Email: sfried@grecc.umaryland.edu
Phone: (410) 605-7118

Barbara C. Hansen, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology and Director of Obesity and Diabetes Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Research Areas:nutrition effects on Type II, non-insulin dependent diabetes, insulin sensitivity and insulin action, obesity, regulation of appetite
Email: bchanson@aol.com
Phone: (410) 706-3168

Fatimah Jackson, Ph.D.
Professor, Applied Biological Anthropology
Research Areas: biological anthropology, phytochemicals and human metabolic and evolutionary biology, human genetic and genomic status and nutritional variation
Email: fatimah@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1431

Robert T. Jackson, Ph.D., R.D..
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: nutritional anemias, international nutrition, diet and evolution, nutritional status during pregnancy
Primary courses taught: NFSC 100-Elements of Nutrition, NFSC 315-Nutrition During the Lifecycle, NFSC 425-International Nutrition, selected graduate courses
Email: bojack@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4533

Mark Kantor, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: food safety, diet and chronic disease
Email: mkantor@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1018

Frederick Khachik, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Research Areas: synthesis, isolation and characterization of carotenoids and their metabolites, mechanism of cancer chemoprevention by carotenoids and their metabolites
Primary Courses Taught: CHEM 104-Fundamentals of Organic and Biochemistry, CHEM 395-Professional Issues in Chemistry and Biochemistry
Email: khachik@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1811

David K.Y. Lei, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research areas: nutrient control of gene expression, trace mineral metabolism
Primary courses taught: NFSC 440-Advanced Human Nutrition
Email: dlei@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-2143

Mary C. McKenna, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Research Areas: developmental neurochemistry and metabolism, regulation of energy metabolism and metabolic trafficking of nutrients in the developing brain
Email: mmckenna@umaryland.edu
Phone: (410) 706-1990

Mira Mehta, Ph.D.
EFNEP Leader, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: food security, malnutrition, community nutrition, international nutrition
Email: mmehta@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1006

Phylis B. Moser-Veillon., R.D. n, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Deparment of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: trace mineral metabolism during lactation and pregnancy
Email: pmv@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-4502

Nadine Sahyoun, Ph.D., R.D..
Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
Research Areas: nutritional epidemiology
Primary courses taught: NFSC 470-Community Nutrition
Email: nsahyoun@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-8774

Thomas Wang, Ph.D.
Research Chemist, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
Research Areas: understanding molecular mechanisms underlying the cancer protective effects of diet derived phytochemicals
Email: wang@307.bhnrc.usda.gov
Phone: (301) 504-8459

Inder Vijay, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences
Research Areas: biosynthesis and regulation of glycoproteins, structure function relationships of glyconjugates
Email: ivijay@umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-1407

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Last updated: 06/11/2008