Dr. Xinyin Jiang is an Associate Professor in Nutrition at the Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College, City University of New York University of New York. She obtained a Ph.D. in Nutrition at Cornell University. Her research interests are Nutritional Biochemistry, One-Carbon Metabolism, Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics, Maternal and Child Health, Fetal Programming, Molecular Nutrition, and Obesity. In addition, her research is focused on determining how nutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism during pregnancy affect cardiometabolic health outcomes of offspring later in life.
Dr. Jan K. Blusztajn is a professor of Pathology in the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. He received his M.S. in Molecular Biology at the University of Warsaw and his Ph.D. in Neural and Endocrine Regulation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has 141 publications with 9812 citations and an h-index of 52 (Scopus, 27 December 2023). His research is in prenatal programming of brain development and aging by essential nutrient availability during gestation.
Prof. Dr. Steven H. Zeisel is a professor emeritus in nutrition and pediatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1975, was a resident in pediatrics at Yale University from 1975 to 1977, and earned his Ph.D. in nutrition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. He served as chair of the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1990 to 2005. He was also the director of the UNC Human Clinical Nutrition Research Center and the director of the UNC Center for Excellence in Children’s Nutrition at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently a member of the American Society for Nutrition, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the American College of Nutrition, and the Society for Pediatric Research.
