Director, Hydrocolloids Research Centre, Allied Health Division, University of Chester,, UK
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Janine Higgins
CCTSI, NORC, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
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Prof. Shaodong Guo
Department of Nutrition, Texas A&M University, USA
Saphwan Al-Assaf
Director, Hydrocolloids Research Centre, Allied Health Division, University of Chester,
UK
Professor Al-Assaf graduated in 1988 with a first-class degree in Chemistry (Mosul University). He gained his MSc (1994) and PhD (1997) from Salford University in the field of radiation and solution properties of hyaluronan and cross-linked form (Hylan). Subsequently he took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Glyndwr University Wrexham (formally North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, NEWI) working on the characterisation and modification of hydrocolloids. He moved to Chester University in August 2015 to lead the Hydrocolloid Research Centre at the Institute of Food Science & Innovation. Professor Al-Assaf has secured research funding from various industrial collaborators and has published over 100 papers. Professor Al-Assaf serves on the editorial board of a number of Journals and acts an associate editor for the Journal of Future Foods.
Janine Higgins
CCTSI, NORC, University of Colorado School of Medicine
USA
I am a Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and a graduate of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program. I received my PhD in biochemistry at the University of Sydney and have spent the last 23 years conducting translational nutrition and metabolism research in rodent models, children, and adults at the University of Colorado. I am passionate about every stage of research, from basic to community services research, and committed to the personal and professional development of staff, Fellows, and Faculty at all career stages. My overarching career goal is to create and grow infrastructure that facilitates research excellence and an outstanding training environment.
Prof. Shaodong Guo
Department of Nutrition, Texas A&M University
USA
Shaodong Guo, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Nutrition at Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station, Texas, USA. He received Ph.D in Physiology from Peking University, China, and completed his postdoctoral medical research trainings at Harvard University. He was an early pioneer in finding Foxo1 in insulin signaling in control of gene expression. Dr. Guo served as senior editor for the Journal of Endocrinology and Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, and editorial board member for Diabetes. His lab research focuses on hormonal signal transduction and insulin resistance, aiming at understanding disease mechanisms and dietary and therapeutic interventions on diabetes and its complications. Working on the gene transcriptional regulation of metabolic homeostasis by insulin receptor substrate proteins (IRS) and the forkhead/winged transcription factor FoxO1, he been funded by American Diabetes Association (ADA), American Heart Association, and the National Institutes of Health of USA for decades. He is the recipient of ADA junior faculty award, career development award, ADA Research Excellence Richard R. Lee Award (2015), and TAMU presidential impact award (2021). His work has been published in numbers of journals including the JBC, Diabetes, Endocrinology, Hypertension, Circulation Research, AJP, MCB, and Nature Medicine, receiving more than 10,000 citations from the Google Scholar with h factor 45.
