The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Sciences at NDSU has invited distinguished scientist Jing Xuan Kang to deliver a research lecture and to meet with department faculty and graduate students. He will present “Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Nutrigenomics” on Tuesday, March 9, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Sudro Hall room 26. The seminar is open to all persons interested in pharmaceutical and biomedical research.
Kang earned a doctorate in medical biochemistry (nutrition and metabolism) from the University of Alberta in 1993 and undertook his postdoctoral training with Dr. Alexander Leaf in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Kang is a principal investigator and director of the Laboratory for Lipid Medicine and Technology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Kang is one of the leading scientists in the field of omega-3 research. He studies the health effects of omega-3 fatty acids, how they work and how genetic technologies can be used to further their benefits. His work has contributed substantially to the advance of science and technology in his field. His innovations and breakthroughs have been recognized internationally.
Kang’s seminal work has opened up new fields of investigation in nutritional medicine. His research has resulted in more than 100 scientific papers and books and several U.S. patents. Much of his work was published in the top tier journals in the field of biomedical science, including Nature, Science, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, PNAS, Lancet and JCI. Kang was the first to publish an original report about omega-3 in Nature. His high-impact publications have increased the public's and scientific community’s awareness of omega-3. During the past few years, he has been invited to speak at more than 80 national and international conferences and seminars including the Massachusetts General Hospital Medical Grand Round. He also was named one of The Best and Brightest 2007 by Esquire magazine.
For more information, contact Jagdish Singh at 1-7943.