Texas Tech University

Naïma Moustaïd-Moussa, Ph.D., FTOS, FAHA

Executive Director, Institute for One Health Innovation // Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor, TTU Department of Nutritional Sciences // Professor, TTUHSC Department of Cell Biology & Biochemistry // Founding Director, Obesity Research Institute
Nutritional Sciences

Email: naima.moustaid-moussa@ttu.edu

Phone: (806) 834-7946

Room: HS 407

Department of Nutritional Sciences 

Prof. Moustaid-Moussa is a native of Morocco. She received her doctorate from the University of Paris and postdoctoral training at Harvard School of Public Health. She joined the faculty at The University of Tennessee(UT) in 1993 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2003. She held appointments at UT Knoxville and UT Institute of Agriculture in the departments of Nutrition, Animal Science and Family & Consumer Sciences and as co-director of the UT Obesity Research Center. She was recruited to TTU in fall 2012 as a Nutritional Sciences Senior Strategic Hire in Obesity. She founded in 2013 The Obesity Research Cluster. Her research focuses on adipocyte biology, the role of fat cell inflammation in metabolic disorders, the link between obesity and breast cancer and mechanisms by which bioactive food and plant components reduce inflammation and insulin resistance.  

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Research Interests

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/hs/ns/research/nior/   My  lab (NIOR: Nutrigenomics, Inflammation and Obesity Research) Laboratory

https://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/obesityresearch/ Obesity Research Institute (ORI)

Naïma Moustaïd-Moussa

Education

Started undergraduate studies (Biology/Geology) in Morocco at the university of Mohamed V in Rabat then completed her BS in Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of Paris Sud-Orsay, France and her MS and PhD in Endocrinology at the University of Paris P & M Cure, France. She then moved to the US for a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular nutrition, funded by JDF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA.

Publications

  1. Guimarães Torres, JP, Queiroz, L.A.D., Menikdiwela, K.R.,Pereira, N., Ramalho, T., Jancar, S., Ramalingam, L., Moustaid-Moussa, N., Martins, J.O. The role of captopril in leukotriene-deficient type 1 diabetic mice. Sci. Rep. (Nat Sp), 13: 22105, 2023
  2. Islam, T., Scoggin, S., Gong, X., Zabet-Moghaddam, M., Kalupahana, N.S., Moustaid-Moussa, N. Anti-Inflammatory Mechanisms of Curcumin and Its Metabolites in White Adipose Tissue and Cultured Adipocytes; Nutrients 16 (1), 70, 2023
  3. Harris, B.N., Yavari, M,, Ramalingam, L., Mounce, P.L., Alers Maldonado, K., Chavira, A.C., Thomas, S., Scoggin, S., Biltz, C., Moustaid-Moussa, N. Impact of longterm dietary high fat and eicosapentaenoic acid on behavior and hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenal axis activity in amyloidogenic APPswe/PSEN1dE9 mice. Neuroendocrinology. doi: 10.1159/000536586. Online ahead of print; 2024
  4. Yavari, M., Ramalingam, L., Harris, B.N., Kahathuduwa, C.N., Kalupahana, N.S., Moustaid-Moussa, N. Mechanisms mediating protective metabolic effects of fish oil in obesity and Alzheimer's disease. Submitted to Advances in Nutrition; 2024.
  5. Garrison, E.C., Brown, A.M.V., Salazar M.M., Barr, B., Moustaid-Moussa, N and Gollahon, L.S. Microbiome Taxonomic and Functional Differences in C3H/HeJ Mice Fed a Long-Term High-Fat Diet with Beef Protein ± Ammonium Hydroxide Supplementation. Nutrients, 16: 1613, 2024; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16111613
  6. Kalupahana, N.S., and Moustaid-Moussa, N. Beyond Blood Pressure Regulation: Role of the Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System in Metabolic Diseases and Cancer. Acta Physiologica; In press, 2024

Nutritional Sciences

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