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Nutrigenomics for Clinical Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
- 1st Edition - July 1, 2025
- Editors: Jim Kaput, Dhavendra Kumar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 6 2 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 6 2 3 - 6
Nutrigenomics for Clinical Medicine and Personalized Healthcare presents an overview of and the challenges associated with bringing personalized nutrition to mainstream dietary pr… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNutrigenomics for Clinical Medicine and Personalized Healthcare presents an overview of and the challenges associated with bringing personalized nutrition to mainstream dietary practices in healthcare.
Broken into 18 chapters, this book addresses everything from the fundamental principles of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, to the role of nutritional factors in various diseases and disorders, to the ethical practices surrounding nutritional genomics.
Compiled for nutrition researchers, nutritionists, health professionals, and graduate students studying related topics, Nutrigenomics for Clinical Medicine and Personalized Healthcare is sure to be a welcomed reference.
- Explores the challenges associated with bringing personalized nutrition to mainstream dietary practices in healthcare
- Includes case histories, illustrations, tables and summaries
- Presents application of nutrigenomic knowledge and advances on improving health and preventing disease
Nutrition researchers, nutritionists, health professionals, and graduate students studying related topics
- No. of pages: 383
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443156229
- eBook ISBN: 9780443156236
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Jim Kaput
Dr. Jim Kaput is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Vydiant. He received his PhD from Colorado State University in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and 5 years as a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor at the Rockefeller University. He was a staff and Biochemistry faculty member at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Director of the Northwestern University Biotechnology Laboratory, and coordinator of Science and Administrative Activities for the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics at the University of California Davis. From 2007 to 2011, Dr. Kaput was Director of the Division of Personalized Nutrition and Medicine at the U.S. FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research (Jefferson, AR). His most recent past position was Senior Expert at the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences from 2011 to 2017.
Affiliations and expertise
Vydiant USADK
Dhavendra Kumar
Professor Kumar has considerable previous experience in writing and editing books and journals related to genetics and genomics. His books include Genomics and Clinical Medicine and Genomics and Health in the Developing World. He founded and leads the new open access journal Applied and Translational Genomics, published by Elsevier. He has published 40 articles in the journals literature.
Professor Dhavendra Kumar is a Visiting Professor, Genomic Policy Unit, Faculty of Life Sciences and Education, The University of South Wales and Consultant in Clinical Genetics at the University Hospital of Wales, Institute of Medical Genetics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom. He is one of the Consultants for the All Wales Medical Genetics Service and the lead Clinician for Clinical Cardiovascular Genetics. After qualifying in Medicine from the King George’s Medical College, University of Lucknow, India, he completed postgraduate training in Pediatrics with an MD. Since 1980 he has pursued a career in Medical Genetics in the UK. In 1990 he became a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics. He is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics (FACMG) and as well as Royal Colleges of Physicians (FRCP-London and FRCP-Ireland) and Pediatrics and Child Health (FRCPCH-UK).
In 2015, he was conferred with the higher degree of DSc by his Alma Mater, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow (UP, India) based on his life-time contributions and achievements to genetic and genomic applications in medicine and health.
Affiliations and expertise
Honorary Clinical Professor, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, UK