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University of South Florida, USA
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Biography
Dr. L. Preston Mercer graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Texas and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He was an NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, College of Medicine in Nutritional Biochemistry. He then spent 19 years in medical education in Alabama and Oklahoma, being on the founding faculty of two medical schools and one dental school, including being Chair of Biochemistry and Associate Dean of Biomedical Sciences. He served as Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Mercer is an elected member of both the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the American Society of Nutritional Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and was a board member of the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists. Dr. Mercer has received numerous honors and awards, has over 140 articles in scientific publications and books, and memberships on editorial boards of professional journals. He has trained 65 students in his laboratory. For five years, he served the United Nations Third World Academy of Science as a Visiting Professor in Science and Sustainable Development to the Department of Nutrition, National Research Center, Giza, Dokki, Egypt. Dr. Mercer has spent 25 years in higher education administration and from 1999 to 2007, served as Campus Executive Officer for USF Polytechnic. Currently, he is a Professor in the College of Public Health, Department of Community and Family Health. Research Interest
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Michigan State University, USA
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Biography
Dr. Maija H. Zile is currently Professor Emeritus from 6/1/2011 – present. Earlier she worked as Professor, in Dept. Food Sci. Human Nutrition., at Mich. State University from 7/1/90 - 6/1/2011. She worked as a Visiting Professor, Dept. Anatomy & Cell Biology, Medical College Wisconsin, from 2/1/96-8/1/96. During the period of 7/1/85- 6/30/90 she performed her duties as Associate Professor, Dept. Food Sci. Human Nutrition., at Mich. State University. She worked as Assoc. Vis. Professor, Dept. Pharmacology at Univ. Mich. Medical School, Ann Arbor from 1/1/88-6/30/88 and as Assistant Professor, Dept. Food Sci. Human Nutrition., Mich. State University from 1/1/81-6/30/85. She also worked as Associate Scientist 7/77-12/80 (60% appointment) and Project Associate 11/61-6/77 (60% appointment), Dept. Biochemistry., University. Wisc.-Madison Research Interest
Metabolism of vitamin A compounds:
Function of vitamin A:
Function of vitamin A in embryonic development:
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North Dakota State University, USA
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Biography
Dr. Senay Simsek is an associate professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at North Dakota State University (NDSU). She earned a B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1998 and MS degree in Biochemistry from GebzeInstitute of Technology. Then, she began her PhD in Food Science at Purdue University in 2003. She completed her PhD in December 2006 and started working as an assistant professor at NDSU in January, 2007. Her research focuses on the on structure function relationships among bio-macromolecules (particularly, starch and non-starch polysaccharides) found in food systems. Also, she works on plant metabolomics to study plant physiology, grain quality and processing, and the nutritional aspects of grains. She has authored/co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles. She is an active member of the America Association of Cereal Chemists and Institute of Food Technologists. Also, she serves on the technical board of the Wheat Quality Council. In 2011, She was awarded the Larson/Yaggie Excellence in Research Award 2011 by the NDSU College of Agriculture and the Early-in Career Award of Excellence during the U.S. Quality Grains Research Consortium annual meeting. She is the recipient of the 2013 AACC-I Young Scientist Research Award. The first North Dakota State University Bert L. D’Appolonia Endowed Associate Professorship in Cereal Science and Technology of Wheat has been awarded to Dr. Simsek in August, 2013. Research Interest
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Shaanxi Normal University, China
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Biography
Professor Xingbin Yang is the Professor and Dean of the College of Food Engineering and Nutritional Science at Shaanxi Normal University, China. He is the director of Shaanxi Engineering Laboratory for Food Green ProHe has received several prestigious awards such as Shaanxi Advancement Award of Science and Technology, Outstanding Young Researcher Awardin Contribution to Food industrial Products of China, National Model Honor Title for Demobilized Officers of China,and Talents Title for National Young and Middle-Aged Technological Innovation Leader in Shaanxi Province of China.cessing and Safety Control, China, and also works as an academic head of Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Medicinal Resources and Natural Pharmaceutical Chemistry, China. Professor Xingbin Yang received his doctoral degree in Pharmacology from the Fourth Military Medical University of China in 2004, and also spent about 2 years at School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, where he as a visiting professor cooperatively conducted clinical intervention trials in food vascular nutrition, and evaluated the biological effects of vegetable nitrate/nitrite and dietary flavonoids. Currently, his group is investigating the mechanism of food metabolic toxicity and nutrition imbalance in vascular disorders, oncogenesis, and fatty liver and other metabolic diseases, as well as the nutritional regulation mechanism of several classes of bioactive functional carbohydrates and flavonoids. Another important emphasis of Dr. Yang’s research is on enhancing health-promoting efficacy of bioactive food ingredients by improving their bioavailability. Dr. Yang’s group is also working on the interactions between gut microbiome and diet structure, and the roles in vascular health promotion. He has edited 5 books, filed 4 patents, and published over 70 papers in peer reviewed journals. Research Interest
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King's College London, UK
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Biography
Professor Ciclitira was an undergraduate at St Bartholomew’s Hospital qualifying in 1971. He undertook a House Physician post at Rochford Hospital, Essex followed by House Officer post at St Bartholomew’ Hospital London. He worked as a Senior House Officer in General Medicine and Rochford Hospital Essex and as a Junior Registrar on the medical unit at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London. He worked as a Senior House Officer at The Royal Marsden Hospital Surrey followed by a Medical Registrar post at Addenbrooke Hospital Cambridge. He completed postgraduate qualifications including an MD and PhD at The MRC Laboratory of molecular Biology Cambridge. He was accredited in General Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology in 1982. He worked as a Senior Registrar at Adenbrooke Hospital, Cambridge, and Guy’s Hospital London. He was appointed Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist and Senior Lecturer in medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital (UMDS) in October 1983 and Professor of Gastroenterology (KCL) in 1994. His Ciclitira is the author of over 250 clinical and scientific publications and lectures regularly worldwide. He is the author of British and American Guidelines for treating coeliac disease. He was awarded the British Society of Gastroenterology research medal in 1982, The UK and Eire Lilly Gastroenterology Award in 1988, the European Society award in 1989 and the Norman Tanner Gastroenterology Medal by St George’s Hospital in 2000. He was jointly awarded a research award by the Institute of Technology of the German Government 2000 to develop variants of wheat, barley and rye that are non toxic to the patients with coeliac disease but retain the nutritional and baking qualities of the original cultivars. Research Interest
Malabsorption including
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University of Aberdeen, UK
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Biography
Dr. Frank Thies graduated in animal Physiology from the University of Burgundy (France) in 1987 before undertaking a PhD in Nutritional Physiology, also at the University of Burgundy and awarded in 1991. Dr. Thies then completed a 3 year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the National Institute of Health (Bethesda, USA) before joining Prof Philip Calder's group within the Department of Biochemistry at Oxford University where he studied mainly the effects of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on immune function in the Elderly. In 1998, he moved to the University of Southampton to work on the effects of polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on atheromatous plaque stability in atherosclerotic patients. In 2001, Dr. Thies was appointed as a lecturer in Human Nutrition at the University of Aberdeen, and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2005, and Reader in 2013. Research Interest
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
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Biography
Dr. Heidi J. Silver is a research associate professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She earned her B.S. in Speech and Hearing Science at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Nutrition at Florida International University. Dr. Silver is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and has been a Registered Dietitian providing medical nutrition therapy and weight management for 25 years in community, hospital, home health and nursing home settings.She is Director of the Vanderbilt Nutrition and Diet Assessment Core Lab, within which she trains and supervises a team of registered dietitians and research assistants who perform diet and nutrition assessments, nutrition education, nutrition counseling and nutrition therapy in clinical trials. Dr. Silver is also co-Director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Nutrition courses in the School of Medicine and teaches Obesity Pathophysiology and Obesity Management in the School of Nursing. Research Interest
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Heriot Watt University, UK
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Biography
Dr. Mihalis Panagiotidis currently holds a Personal Chair in Nutrition & Toxicology while at the same time serves as a Department Head of Human Health at the School of Life Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK. He has research expertise in the areas of molecular toxicology, molecular & biochemical nutrition and human carcinogenesis as evident by a number of peer-reviewed publications. Prior to this position, he was (1) a Research Assistant Professor of Nutrition (2006-2007) at the Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA; (2) an Assistant Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health (2007-2009) at the School of Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada-Reno, USA; (3) an Associate Professor of Nutrition (2011-2012) at the School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham-Malaysia Campus, Malaysia; and (4) an Assistant Professor of Molecular Pathology (2012-2013) at the Laboratory of Pathological Anatomy, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Greece. Mihalis serves at the Editorial Board of a number of peer-reviewed journals whereas at the same time is an Active Member of the Education Quality Accreditation Commission and a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the International Institute of Anticancer Research. In the past, he has been a Marilyn Gentry Fellow of the American Institute for Cancer Research & World Cancer Research Fund as well as a recipient of a number of research awards including a Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, a Marilyn Gentry Fellowship and a Nutricia Research Foundation International Training Fellowship. Research Interest
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
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Biography
Dr. F. Javier Moreno, holds his PhD degree in Spain (IFI, CSIC) complemented with a pre-doctoral stay at France (INRA) which allowed him to gain knowledge and experience of dairy O-glycoproteins and O-glycopeptides, and of a wide range of chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques to characterize and identify these biomolecules. Since June 2007, he is working at the Instituto de Investigación en Ciencias de la Alimentacion, CIAL (CSIC-UAM) with a permanent position as Tenured Scientist and one of his current research lines is the enzymatic synthesis of new bioactive oligosaccharides and the development of new analytical methods for their structural and functional characterization. So far, F. Javier Moreno is co-author of 65 peer-reviewed research articles published in international journals included in the Science Citation Index, 1 edited book 10 book chapters, 2 patents and 78 communications to international conferences (including invited conferences). He has supervised 4 Master Thesis and 3 Doctoral Thesis. He is member of the editorial board of several journals within the Food & Science Technology and Analytical Chemistry areas. He has experience in risk assessment working as member of the Spanish National Biosecurity Commission in food allergenicity topics. Research Interest
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Texas Woman's University, USA
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Biography
Dr. Mo (2011-present) is a Professor in Nutrition and Food Sciences at Texas Woman's University, USA. Earlier he worked as an Associate Professor (Tenured) in Nutrition and Food Sciences at Texas Woman's University. He holds his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has done his MS in Plant Physiology from Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and BS Biochemistry from Fudan University. Research Interest
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Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
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Biography
Dr. Sebnem Harsa completed Doctor of Philosophy in Food Science and Technology from The University of Reading, UK in 1992. She finished her Master of Science in Food Engineering at Ege University, Turkey in 1986 and she done the Bachelor of Science in Food Engineering from Ege University, Turkey in 1983. She received her post doctorial at Chemical Engineering Department from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1994. She started to work as a Research Assistant in Food Engineering Department at Ege University, Turkey in 1995. She worked as an Assistant Professor in Food Engineering Department from Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey and Associate Professor in Food Engineering Department at Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, 2001. Presently, she is a professor in Food Engineering Department at Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey. Research Interest
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Milan State University, Italy
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Dr. Marcello Iriti currently serving as a professor of Plant Biology and Pathology at the Department of Agricultural end Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Milan State University. Member of the Board of the PhD School in Sciences for Food Systems, Milan State University. He has been studying bioactive phytochemicals relevant for human nutrition and health, including melatonin, polyphenols and carotenoids, focusing on their functional role in planta, as well as on in vitro/in vivo and in human biological activities. Furthermore, he has been investigating the effects of elicitors on plant secondary metabolism, as an approach to obtain phytochemical-enriched plant foods. Author of more than one hundred publications, including book chapters, reviews (some of which invited) and editorials (Scopus h-index: 20). Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Medicinal Plants. Member of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU). Patent: ‘Phytotherapeutics for the treatment of chemoresistant cancers’ (MI2013A001495). Invited Speaker, Chairman and Member of the Scientific Committee in International Congresses. Research Interest
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Kansas State Unversity, USA
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Dr. Weiqun Wang is a Professor, 2012-Present, Department of Human Nutrition, Kansas State University. Associate Professor, 2006-2012, Department of Human Nutrition, Kansas State University. Assistant Professor, 2002-2006, Department of Human Nutrition, Kansas State University. Associate Scientist, 1998-2002, Dept of Food Sciences & Human Nutrition, Iowa State University. Assistant Scientist II, 1997-1998, Dept of Food Sciences & Human Nutrition, Iowa State University. Junior Researcher, 1992-1997, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii. Lecturer, 1990-1991, Department of Biology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. Research Associate, 1983-1985, Institute of Biological Products, Shanghai, China. Research Interest
cancer prevention by dietary means.
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University of Belgrade , Serbia
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Biography
Danijela Ristic-Medic is a medical doctor, specialist of internal medicine, with MSc and PhD in nutrition and metabolism. She works at University of Belgrade, Institute for medical research in Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism. She is a scientist who is actively engaged in basic, clinical and epidemiology nutrition research, with focus on nutritional habits and nutritional status assessment, diet therapy, fatty acid profile in serum and erythrocyte as a biomarker of dietary intake, with background in defining the role of fatty acids in health and disease. The iodine intake-biomarker and health outcome with meta-analyses relationship is also part of research interest. Obesity and hyperlipidemia is the field of her long-standing interest in the health prevention area and also through the metabolic aspects. She is working as a therapist at Counseling office for nutrition and metabolism. In the areas of nutrition therapy in cardiovascular and malignant diseases she has lectured at continuing medical education. Up to know, she has over 100 published papers, abstract and reports in national and international peer reviewed journals. She actively takes part in scientific meetings, congresses, symposiums in the country and abroad. She is member of a number professional associate in country: Serbian Medical Chamber, Serbian Nutrition Society, Serbian Obesity Society and International Association of Study of Obesity (IASO), Serbian Physiological Society, Sports Medicine Association of Serbia and Capacity Development in Nutrition and Food Research in Central and Eastern Europe (CAPNUTRA). Research Interest
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University of Belgrade, Serbia
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Dr. Vesna Vucic was born in Cuprija, Serbia. She received her BSc and MSc in biochemistry from the Chemical Faculty, University of Belgrade and her PhD in biochemistry and physiology from the Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade. She works at the Institute for Medical Research, Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism in Belgrade. After 10-years experience in cancer research by cell culture and immunochemistry methods, in the last few years her. She has been involved in several national and EU funded projects and published many articles in peer reviewed international journals. Research Interest
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Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism, Serbia
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Dr. Gordana Petrovic-Oggiano MD, MSc, PhD, Scientific associate, medical doctor, specialist of hygiene, with PhD in nutrition. She works in Institute of medical research, Center of Research excellence in nutrition and metabolism at University of Belgrade, as a therapist at counseling office for nutrition and metabolism. Research Interest
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Monash University, Malaysia
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Dr. Uma Devi Palanisamy, completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and furthered to obtain an MPhil from the University of Malaya. She pursued her PhD at Cambridge on a project designing affinity ligands for the selective binding of the glycoprotein pharmaceuticals. While at the University of Cambridge she won several awards which included the Roche ''Young Investigators Award, Third Year Student’s Prize and together with her team won the "Queens' Award for Technological Advancement", UK . Prior to joining Monash, Uma was in SIRIM (a research based industrial institute) for a period of 17 years, where she carried out extensive work to aid natural product research in Malaysia. Uma has to her name number of innovation awards, six patents and a large number of publications. Research Interest
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
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Dr. Dongmin Liu has completed his Ph.D at Virginia Tech and postdoctoral studies in the University of Iowa Medical College. He is an associate professor and the director of Molecular Nutrition Laboratory in the Department of Human Nutrition at Virginia Tech. Dr. Liu’s research is focused on identifying and characterizing phytochemicals for prevention and treatment of obesity, diabetes, and vascular disease. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Liu has served on various grant review panels and is also serving as an editorial board member for various scientific journals. Research Interest
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University of Pittsburgh, USA
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Dr. Nagarajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Vascular Medicine Institute Investigator at the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine. He has published more than 55 peer-reviewed articles, and his research has been funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, and private foundations. Dr. Nagarajan earned his PhD from Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. He has completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Tulane Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He then joined Emory University school of Medicine, where he worked for 6 years, and worked at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, Little Rock for 10 years prior to joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Research Interest
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Uzhgorod National University, Ukraine
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Dr. Nadiya Boyko, D.Sc., PhD Microbiology, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Uzhhorod National University in Ukraine. From 2010 she also P.i. of the Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Mucosal Immunology. Before she was working as sabbatical visiting Researcher in Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, University of Pennsylvania, USA. Partner of Base Food, Capinfood, JSO-ERA, BacFoodNet international projects. Coordinator of Ukrainian National Technology Platform “Agro-Food”, Chief Scientific Officer of Regional SK-UA-HU “Cassovia Life Science”. Research Interest
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Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA
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Dr. Wang is an assistant professor in Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. He received MD degree in Shanghai Medical University, China (1986) and post-doctor training later in Bowman school of medicine, Wake Forest University, USA. He has forty nine publications and serves as peer reviewer for ten journals. Research Interest
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Ag Research Limited, New zealand
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Dr. Mark J. McCann, Originally from Dublin in Ireland, graduated from the University of Ulster at Coleraine in 2006 with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science, focusing on the effects of a dietary bio-active on prostate cancer. After his post-doc with the Northern Ireland Centre for Diet and Health, he moved to New Zealand in 2007 as a Research Scientist in AgResearch with the Biomolecular Discovery objective of Nutrigenomics New Zealand. During his time with AgResearch he has been awarded a Marsden Fast-Start grant (2008-2011), three successive Palmerston North Medical Research Foundation Wilson Grants (2010-2013) and was recently appointed as an Associate Investigator in the Gravida Core. Mark has expertise in using human in vitro models combined with nutritional systems biology to understand how food affects cell function and health. Research Interest
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University of Ghana, Ghana
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Dr. Emmanuel currently working as Associate Professor in Food Science and Technology at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana, where he has been working over the past thirteen (13) years. He holds Ph.D. Degree in Food Science from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.; M.Phil and B.Sc (Honours) degrees in Food Science from the University of Ghana. He also holds Post-graduate Certificates in International Food Laws and Regulations from the Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA and in Food Quality Management Systems from Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands. He is also a trained and Licensed Food Auditor by the World Food Safety Organization, UK. Research Interest
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