DR. Steven H. Zeisel is best known for discovering that people require the nutrient choline (important for fetal development, liver and muscle function).
CHAPEL HILL, NC, December 11, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Steven Zeisel, M.D., PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Zeisel celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Zeisel is renowned as a scientist and educator in the field of nutrition with more than 40 years of innovation and leadership in his discipline. He is best known for discovering that people require the nutrient choline (important for fetal development, liver and muscle function). This discovery led to the US National Academy of Sciences, the European Union Food Safety Authority, and the US Food and Drug Administration setting recommended dietary intakes for choline. The FDA also required all manufacturers of infant formulas to increase the amount of choline they add. Dr. Zeisel was the first to find that choline is needed by the stem cells that become the nerves in brain, and that low maternal intake of choline led to abnormal brain development in her baby. The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have since issued recommendations that pregnant mothers eat diets that are adequate in choline. Dr. Zeisel and his research team also discovered that people have common genetic differences that can greatly increase the amount of choline they need. He has founded a company, SNP Therapeutics that provides genetic tests to identify such metabolic roadblocks and provides gene-guided treatments that overcome these metabolic inefficiencies. Dr. Zeisel has authored 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has authored many chapters in textbooks of nutrition and medicine. He was President of the American Institute of Nutrition (now the American Society of Nutrition; the premier academic research society in this discipline from 2002-2003. He is the editor of Frontiers in Nutrigenomics, is on the editorial board of the FASEB Journal, and was the founding editor of the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.
Dr. Zeisel received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School, and completed his internship and residency in pediatrics at Yale. In 1980, he joined the faculty at Boston University School of Medicine where he rose from assistant to full professor of Pathology and Pediatrics. In 1990, he moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where is the Kenan Distinguished University Professor of Nutrition and Pediatrics. He was the Chair of the department of Nutrition from 1990-2005, the Associate Dean for Research of the School of Public Health till 2007, and is now Director of the University of North Carolina Nutrition Research Institute (a unit focused on developing the area of Precision Nutrition). Also, he is the Director of the University of North Carolina Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (one of 12 such centers of excellence funded by the US National Institutes of Health).
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