Staff

Jacob Selhub, Ph.D., Laboratory Director
Senior Scientist and Professor, Nutrition
Research focus: relationship between B vitamin nutriture, homocysteine, and vascular disease

Ligi Paul, Ph.D., Scientist III
Research focus: Vitamin B12 and folate metabolism, genetic and nutritional perturbations of these pathways and their effect on methylation reactions, gene expression and disease risk

Su-Ping Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Scientist III
Research focus: Mechanisms relating of B vitamin to angiogenesis, age-related changes in cardio-vascular function, and cardio-vascular diseases.

Silvina Furlong Choumenkovitch, Ph.D., Research Associate

Gaofeng Bi, B.S., Research Technician

Meghan Faherty, B.S., Staff Assistant

Rosaline Bowen, M.A., Staff Assistant

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For more information about the Vitamin Metabolism Laboratory, please visit the USDA, Agricultural Research Service.

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