Naima Moustaid-Moussa, Ph.D., FTOS, FAHA
Email: naima.moustaid-moussa@ttu.edu
Cancer Research Interests: Basic nutrition and obesity research, obesity and breast cancer, diet-gene interactions,
anti-inflamatory mechanisms of bioactive food components (e.g. fish oil, polyphenols)
in obesity, cardiometabolic diseases, cancer and Alzheimer's disease
Metabolic Health Research: Obesity and nutrition; basic and translational research; bioactive compounds in foods;
Food is Medicine; obesity links to other cardiometabolic and chronic diseases including
breast cancer, nutrition, obesity, and aging/Alzheimer's disease
Neurological Research: Obesity, diet and Alzheimer's disease, metabolic diseases, inflammation, and neuroinflammation
Biography
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.See full biography.
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