Naïma Moustaïd-Moussa, Ph.D.
Paul W. Horn Distinguished Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Associate
Vice President for Research and Director, Obesity Research Institute, Office of Research
& Innovation
Nutritional Sciences
Email: naima.moustaid-moussa@ttu.edu
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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