Dr. Robert S. Chapkin (Mentor) is a nutritional biochemist in the Program in Integrative Nutrition & Complex Diseases and the Center for Translational Environmental Health Research at Texas A&M University. He currently holds appointments in the Departments of Nutrition & Food Science, Biochemistry & Biophysics, and Microbial & Molecular Pathogenesis. He received his BS in Nutrition and Biochemistry from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada; an MS in Nutrition from the University of Guelph, and a PhD in Nutrition and Physiological Chemistry from the University of California-Davis in 1986. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Biology in the School of Medicine at the University of California-Davis in 1988, he joined the faculty at Texas A&M University. Dr. Chapkin is currently a Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor and University Faculty Fellow, and Deputy Director – NIEHS Center for Translational Environmental Health Research (CTEHR). During the past 25 years he has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles in nutrition, cancer biology and immunology. Dr. Chapkin works with students and post-docs to obtain NIH/NSERC/foreign national scholarship funding, and is strongly supported by the National Institutes of Health.
