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CIBERDEM’s External Scientific Advisory Committee Members:
• President: Jose M . Ordovas, Universidad de Tufts, Boston (USA)
• Members: F .Xavier Pi-Sunyer, Universidad de Columbia, New York (USA), Decio Eizirik, Universidad Libre, Bruselas (Bélgica), Antonio Vidal-Puig, Universidad de Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), Antonio Vidal-Puig, Universidad de Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), Ele Ferrannini, Universidad de Pisa, Pisa (Italia)
Presidente: Jose M. Ordovas, Tufts University, Boston (USA) Director, Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNR-CA) at Tufts University, Boston
(Massachusetts) and Professor in Nutrition and Genetics, School of Medicine and Nutrition, Tufts University .
Mr . Jose M . Ordovas is a pioneer in research on the importance of diet and eating habits in relation to the genome . His work in the genetic field of cardiovascular diseases led to his appointment as the Head of Genetic Studies of the well-known Framingham Study . His articles have been published in the most prestigious journals with the greatest international impact on biomedical research, such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Science, JAMA, The Lancet, etc . His career in this field has earned him many awards, such as the Nutrition Science Award (2007) from the American Society for Nutrition, or the USDA Secretary’s Honor Award (2006), the most important distinction awarded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), among others . In 2004, the Sociedad Española de Arteriosclerosis named him an Honorary Member .
Member: F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, Columbia University, New York (USA)
Professor of Medicine at Columbia University (New York) . Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition Department of St . Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center and Director of the New York Obesity Research Center . He chaired the Committee of the Na- tional Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, defining and designing new governmental guidelines for the prevention and treatment of obesity . He also served as the President of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the American Society for Clinical Nutrition and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, and as a member of various diabetes and obesity advisory commit- tees . He has written over 300 international articles and a number of book chapters . He served as the Editor of the International Journal of Obesity from 1994-2005 and as the Editor-in-Chief of Obesity Research from 1995-2000 .
Member: Decio Eizirik, Université Libre, Brussels (Belgium)
Director, Experimental Medicine Laboratory, Université Libre, Brussels (ULB), Belgium . He has published over 220 articles in international journals and received many awards including, most importantly, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Award (JDRF), the Diabetes Care Research Award and the EASD/Eli Lilly Award . He is the coordinator of the Beta Cell Gene Expression Bank and of several competitive European projects in the field of diabetes . He served as the Honorary Scientific Secretary of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) (2004-2007) and the Assistant Editor of the Diabetologia journal (1998- 2004) . He is currently the member of the Scientific Committee for the National Programme of Diabetes Research in France . His research interests focus on molecular mechanisms regulating beta cell apoptosis and the search for new approaches to prevent progressive cell mass loss in diabetes .
Member: Antonio Vidal-Puig, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)
M .D, PhD in Endocrinology . He completed his post-doctoral internship at Harvard and then lived out his research career there un- til 1999 when he moved to the University of Cambridge . He is now the Associate Professor of Metabolic Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Metabolic Medicine at the University of Cambridge . He is also the Assistant Director of the MRC-CORD Research Centre for Obesity and Related Diseases of the University of Cambridge and Director of Wellcome Trust’s Mouse Programme . His areas of scientific interest include adipocyte biology, mitochondrial biology, lipotoxicity and genetically modified animal models .
Member: Ele Ferrannini, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Pisa (Italia)
Professor of Internal Medicine, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Chief of the Metabolic Medicine Unit of the CNR (National Research Council), Instituto de Fisiología Clínica de Pisa, and Professor of Clinical Medicine, Diabetes Department, University de Texas, USA . He has published over 400 original articles in the field of diabetes, metabolic medicine and hypertension . He is a member of various scientific associations . His participation in the Executive Council of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) as the President (2004-2008) and his role as the Editor-in-Chief of Diabetologia (1994-1998), the official journal of the EASD, must be given special mention . He now serves as the President of the European Group for the Study of Insulin Resistance .
Lines of research: insulin resistance and atherosclerosis, impact of oxidative stress and blood pressure on endothelial function, autoimmunity in adult-onset diabetes, physiopathology of insulin secretion, impact of hyperinsulinemia on the nervous system, pathogenesis of insulin resistance and hyperinsulinism in obesity, effect on weight loss; coronary atherosclerosis in diabetes, atherosclerosis in diabetes .
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