Leader in understanding relationships between nutrition, gene expression, inflammation and health
Dr. Floyd "Ski" Chilton III
- Widely recognized in academia and industry for his work on the role of fatty acid metabolism in human diseases
- Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine
- Director of the Wake Forest Center for Botanical Lipids which is supported by a grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the Office of Dietary Supplements. The focus of the Center, which includes Wake Forest University and Harvard, is to study the effects of natural polyunsaturated fatty acids on gene expression and health in humans www.mydietaryfats.org
- Founded Program in Molecular Medicine at Wake Forest University Health Sciences and helped build it into one of the most successful programs of its kind in the United States
- Authored over 110 scientific articles and book chapters and three books, Inflammation Nation, Win the War Within, and The Gene Smart Diet
