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Jairam Vanamala
Associate Professor
Foods for Gut Health Laboratory
USA
Biography
Jairam Vanamala, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Dept of Food Science and directs Foods for Gut Health Laboratory. Dr. Vanamala worked as an Assistant Professor at Dept of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University and served on the faculty of the University of Colorado Cancer Center (UCCC), Aurora, CO., before moving to Penn State in August this year. Dr. Vanamala received his doctorate from Texas A&M University (TAMU), College Station and completed his post-doctorate AICR fellowship in cancer prevention/nutritional biochemistry at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI; NASA), TAMU. Dr. Vanamala serves on scientific advisory board for the Angiogenesis Foundation (http://www.angio.org/about-people-advisoryboard.php). He also serves on the Sub-Committee For Professional Nutrition Education, American Society for Nutrition (ASN; 2007-present). Dr. Vanamala’s long-term research goal is to “optimize the health profiles of plant food products and provide modern evidence for ancient wisdom on diet and disease.”
Research Interest
Dr. Vanamala’s research focuses on food systems approach to promoting gut health and preventing chronic diseases. He uses both in vitro and in vivo models, and employs ‘omics’ approaches in conjunction with cellular and molecular techniques to determine ‘polypharmacology’ of whole foods and complex mixtures, and of individual plant bioactive compounds.