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Associate Professor
Division of Nutritional Sciences
University of Illinois at urbana champaign
United States of America
Dr. Nakamura received his DVM degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Practice in veterinary medicine for several years made him recognize the importance of nutrition in disease prevention, and he started his graduate study in nutrition at the University of California, Davis. After completing his PhD work, he continued his extensive research training in molecular nutrition at University of California at Davis, State University of New York at Stony Brook and University of Texas at Austin. He joined the University of Illinois in 2000. The main focus of his current research is to develop a cost-effective program of dietary treatment of obesity.
Dietary prevention and treatment of obesity (Current project: Individualized diet improvement program) Transcriptional regulation of macronutrient metabolism (Current project: Regulatory mechanism of insulin sensitivity in adipose tissue) Function and metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) (Current project: Dietary PUFA on macrophage activation)