Staff

Susan B. Roberts, Ph.D., Laboratory Director
Senior Scientist and Professor, Nutrition and Psychiatry
Research focus: dietary determinants of body fatness, energy efficiency, expenditure, and intake; behavioral approaches to weight loss; stable isotope kinetic techniques

Edward Saltzman, M.D.
Scientist II and Assistant Professor, Medicine
Research focus: obesity; body weight regulation in humans

Sai Krupa Das, Ph.D.
Scientist III and Assistant Professor, Nutrition
Research focus: energy metabolism; obesity and body weight regulation in humans; caloric restriction

Deanna DiDonato, B.S., Graduate Research Assistant

Sonya Elder, M.S., Graduate Research Assistant

Paul Fuss, B.A., Project Manager

Cheryl Gilhooly, Ph.D., M.S., M.Ph., R.D., L.D.N., Research Dietitian

Virendar Kaushik, M.A., Graduate Research Assistant

Margaret Mirch, B.S., Study Coordinator

Maria S. Berlis, B.S., Research Coordinator

Lisa Robinson, R.D., L.D.N., Research Dietitian

Lorien Urban, B.A., Graduate Research Assistant

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Tufts Nutritionist's Research Makes Waves Across The Country

Sacrificing Food In The Name Of Nutrition
It takes dedicated researchers and disciplined volunteers to fuel nutrition studies, which lead to important discoveries about food and health.

Formula for Disaster
British researchers are working on a baby formula that would make infants resistant to obesity later in life. Tufts nutrition expert Susan Roberts is skeptical.

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Limiting calories may prove to be the 'fountain of youth'

Volunteer for the CALERIE study:
Researchers will explore whether healthy adults who eat a 25% calorie restricted diet for two years will experience biological changes thought slow the aging process and protect against age-related disease.