2008 Idaho Conference on Health Care
Jim Kaput, PhD
Presentation title: “Nutrigenomics Research for Personalized Nutrition and Medicine”
Wednesday, October 22, 1-5 pm
Jim Kaput joined the FDA/National Center for Toxicological Research (Jefferson, AR) as Director of the Division of Personalized Nutrition and Medicine. He previously held concurrent positions as Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC); a senior scientist in the Bioinformatics Shared Resource Core of the NCMHD Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics at the University of California Davis, and Science Advisor for International Alliances and Best Practices for NuGO, the European Nutrigenomics Organization. As a part of his efforts in international nutrigenomics, he manages the UC Davis nutrigenomics list serve. He is the only contributor to emails describing the science and applications of nutrigenomics for personal and public health – as of June 2008, there are 2050 individuals in at least 50 countries on the list - http://tinyurl.com/2ebbpc) and is co-founder of the international Nutrigenomics Society (NxS). The first task of the NxS will be to harmonize international nutrigenomic efforts in analyses of nutrient – gene interactions in type 2 diabetes. Wiley and Sons recently published Nutritional Genomics: Discovering the Path to Personalized Nutrition (eds J Kaput and RL Rodriguez). Dr. Kaput recently received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in Global/Public Health for a two week visit to the State University of Săo Paulo, Brazil.
Dr. Kaput received his PhD from Colorado State University in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. He spent 5 years as a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor at the Rockefeller University in the laboratory of GÜnter Blobel, the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine. Dr. Kaput was a staff and Biochemistry faculty member at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and Director of the Northwestern University Biotechnology Laboratory for 2 years. Dr. Kaput was in a series of biotechnology companies (some of which he founded and managed) from 1998 through 2007. His most recent position was President and Chief Scientific Officer of NutraGenomics (Chicago, IL), a biotechnology company focusing on nutrient gene interactions that cause chronic diseases.