ASN, CRN Honor Food Researchers

WASHINGTONThe Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) presented scientists William G. Helfreich, Ph.D, and Hang Xiao, Ph.D., the Mary Swartz Rose Senior Investigator Award and the Mary Swartz Rose Young Investigator Award at the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting.

Helferich is a professor in the Food Science & Human Nutrition department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagnes College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. He is also currently the director of the National Institute of Health-funded Botanical Research Center at UIUC. With more than 20 years of researching and teaching food safety and toxicology, his focus of study is in natural chemicals in foods and potential effects on chronic diseases.

Xiao is an assistant professor and honors program director in the Food Science Department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She research focuses on the enhancement of biological activity of dietary components by combination regimen, food processing and nanotechnology, cancer preventive dietary components and diet-based strategies for cancer prevention.

CRN and ASN jointly give the Mary Swartz Rose Senior Investigator Award to an investigator with ten years or more of postgraduate training, outstanding preclinical and/or clinical research of dietary supplements and other bioactive food components. The Mary Swartz Rose Young Investigator Award is based on the same qualifications, but is given to an investigator with 10 years or less of postgraduate training.