Nutrients

Dr. Jordi Julvez

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Pere Virgili Institute for Health Research (IISPV), Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43003 Tarragona, Spain
Interests: neuropsychological development; human cognition; nutrition; epidemiology; environmental sciences; child health
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Prof. Dr. Yuji Kamijo

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Department of Nephrology, Shinshu University Hospital, Matsumoto 390-8621, Japan
Interests: nephrology; tubule; glomerulus; lipid metabolism; renal pathology; renal biochemistry; chronic kidney disease; acute kidney injury; dialysis; kidney transplantation; vascular access
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Dr. Hidehiro Kaneko

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Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: preventive cardiology; epidemiology; heart failure; cardiovascular disease; clinic nutrition

Dr. Jae Hee Kang

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Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Interests: cognitive decline; dementia; glaucoma; ophthalmic diseases

Dr. Scott Kanoski

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Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: behavioral neuroscience; ingestive behavior; energy balance; neuroendocrinology; learning & memory; systems neuroscience

Prof. Dr. Maria Kapsokefalou

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Unit of Human Nutrition, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece
Interests: hydration needs and hydration habits in humans; food and nutrition policies; nutrition in vulnerable population groups; food security
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Dr. Kalliopi Karatzi

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Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Interests: food science; human nutrition; dietetics; dietary behavior; dietary patterns; hypertension; vascular health; blood pressure; atherosclerosis
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Dr. Spyridon N. Karras

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Laboratory of Biological Chemistry, Medical School of Aristotle University, 55535 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: intermittent fasting; periodic fasting; religious fasting: fasting glucose; obesity; impaired fasting glucose; non-fasting triglycerides; fasting blood glucose; caloric restriction; meal frequency; calorie restriction
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Prof. Dr. Hisanori Kato

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Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 1138657, Japan
Interests: protein and amino acid nutrition; multi-omics analysis; functional foods; genome-wide association study; epigenetic alteration by maternal nutrition
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Dr. Christos S. Katsanos

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1. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, 27 E Tyler Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
2. Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic Collaborative Research Building, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA
Interests: obesity; insulin resistance; exercise; nutrition; lipid metabolism; protein turnover; skeletal muscle
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Prof. Dr. Mojtaba Kaviani

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Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6, Canada
Interests: macronutrient manipulations and sport performance; sport supplements and recovery; sport bars and drinks for endurance, strength, and power; functional food and weight loss; glycemic control and diabetes; active aging strategies
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Prof. Dr. Shannon L. Kelleher

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Department of Biomedical and Nutritional Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 883 Broadway, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
Interests: role of diet; genetics; environmental factors on maternal and infant health; mammary gland development; gastrointestinal development; impact on host-microbiome interactions

Dr. Jennifer Keogh

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Fellow South Australian Cardiovascular Research Development Program, School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
Interests: prevention and management of chronic disease using dietary change to achieve health benefits in obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease; diet and endothelial function, including sodium, potassium and saturated fat; intermittent energy restriction as a strategy for weight loss in people with and without diabetes
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Dr. NaNa Keum

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Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02138, USA
Interests: epidemiology; nutrition; obesity; colorectal cancer; meta-analysis; cohort study

Prof. Dr. Abdelouahed Khalil

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Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 4N4, Canada
Interests: atherosclerosis; lipoproteins; oxidative stress; polyphenols; antioxidants
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Dr. Gulam Khandaker

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Central Queensland Public Health Unit, Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service, Rockhampton, QLD 4700, Australia
Interests: childhood disability; infectious disease; early childhood development; child survival; maternal and childhood undernutrition; poverty dynamics
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Prof. Dr. Jessica C. Kiefte-de Jong

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Department of Public Health and Primary Care/LUMC Campus The Hague, Leiden University Medical Center, 2511 VA The Hague, The Netherlands
Interests: nutrition; lifecourse; syndemics; food insecurity; health behaviour models

Prof. Dr. Amanda J. Kiliaan

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Department of Medical Imaging, Anatomy, Radboudumc Preclinical Imaging Center PRIME Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Interests: prevention; nutrition; diet-related disorders; metabolic syndrome; food for brain health (Alzheimer Stroke)

Prof. Dr. Jihye Kim

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1. Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
2. Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, College of Life Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea
Interests: nutrition; epidemiology; dietary pattern; metabolic disease; cancer; cohort study; meta-analysis

Prof. Dr. Yun-Gi Kim

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Research Center for Drug Discovery, Faculty of Pharmacy, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Interests: gut microbiota; infection; innate immunity; inflammatory diseases; mouse disease models; indigestible carbohydrates; metabolites

Dr. Takao Kimura

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1. Department of Integrated Health Science, Graduate School of Food and Population Health Science, Gunma University, Aramaki-Machi 4-2, Maebashi 371-8510, Gunma, Japan
2. General Health Support Center, Gunma University, Aramaki-Machi 4-2, Maebashi 371-8510, Gunma, Japan
Interests: obesity; glucose metabolism; insulin resistance; lipid metabolism; exercise; food science; cancer; CKD; MASLD; osteoporosis; postmenopausal; sarcopenia; flail; mental stress
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Dr. James King

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School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE1 3TU, UK
Interests: exercise metabolism; appetite regulation; energy balance; clinical exercise physiology; insulin resistance; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; diabetes

Prof. Dr. Kosaku Kinoshita

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Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchi Kamimachi Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8610, Japan
Interests: critical care; emergency medicine; resuscitation; inflammation; neruointensive care; nutrition therapy; heatstroke

Dr. Matthias Klein

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Department of Food Science and Technology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Interests: metabolomics; NMR; microbiome; maternity; chronic disease; type 2 diabetes; machine learning; artificial intelligence

Dr. Judith Klein-Seetharaman

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Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
Interests: biomarkers of weight loss; biofeedback; lemon juice diet; membrane receptors; protein structure; dynamics and interactions

Prof. Dr. Panagiota Klentrou

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Department of Kinesiology, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
Interests: health, training and performance in youth; bone physiology; integrated inflammatory and bone responses to exercise and nutrition; the role of adiposity and diet in skeletal growth, development and adaptation; sclerostin and tissue cross talk
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Dr. Ben Chi-bun Ko

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State Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery, Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Interests: natural products; target identification; hepatocellular carcinoma; drug discovery; metabolism; gene regulation; lysosomes
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Dr. Frederick Koh

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1. Colorectal Service, Department of General Surgery, Sengkang General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
2. Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore
Interests: sarcopenia; surgical outcomes; prehabilitation; artificial intelligence; colorectal cancer; surgical oncology; multi-omics analysis; branched chain amino acid; biomarker; therapeutics
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Prof. Michio Komai

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Laboratory of Nutrition, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Interests: zinc; vitamin K; biotin; functional food components; intestinal morphology; taste physiology; appetite regulation
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Dr. Slavko Komarnytsky

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Department of Food, Bioprocessing, and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, 400 Dan Allen Drive, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: pharmacogenomics; diet-gene interactions; energy metabolism; microbiome; botanical products; mitochondria; phenolics; cannabinoids; fungi; fermentation; protein isolate
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