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Prof. Jussi Pihlajamäk
University of Eastern Finland (UEF) is located in Eastern Finland with a staff of 2,000 and a student population of 6,000 students. It is specialized in health and environmental sciences including the technologies related to these disciplines[...]
Prof. Vladimír Štich
Department of Sport medicine, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague aims to elucidate processes that underlie, or mediate, the beneficial metabolic effects of lifestyle interventions on obesity-related metabolic disturbances[...]
Prof. Martine Laville
The Rhône-Alpes Research Center for Human Nutrition strives to improve human nutrition and health. It develops research programs in nutrition within the framework of national, European and international research programs, working closely with...[...]
Prof. Ian Macdonald
Research: functional consequences of metabolic and nutritional disturbances at rest and in exercise in health, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. Studies involve catecholamine measurement and assessment of sympathetic nervous activity...[...]
Prof. Dr. Michael Stumvoll
At the IFB Researchers are working interdisciplinary on topics like stigmatization of obese persons, eating disorders, and projects investigating the interplay between brain function and eating behaviour. [...]
Dr.Karin Schindler
Obesity, Bariatric Surgery, Nutrition, Age- and Disease related Malnutrition, Diabetes[...]
Prof. Lluis Serra-Majem
The Nutrition Research Group of the Research Institute of Biomedical and Heath Sciences Institute, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in collaboration with other Institutions, is a leading Spanish research group in the area of dietary and[...]
Prof. Carlo La Vecchia
The Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health of the University of Milan is involved in the epidemiology of several common cancers (including cancers of the descriptive trends, including pancreas, of the breast, female genital tract[...]