Prof. Dr. Duo Li, China
Duo Li is a Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. He is the current Director of the Nutrition and Food Safety Center of the Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society, and is a Deputy Director of the Food Science Institute, Zhejiang University. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine (Lanzhou University, China), and an MSc (University of Tasmania, Hobart) in Natural Products and PhD in Nutrition and Food Science (RMIT University, Melbourne) in Australia. He was also a research fellow at Deakin University, and a senior research fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne.
He is an editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and has also served on numerous editorial boards including the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, ACTA Nutrimenta SINCA, Asia Journal of Food & Agro-Industry, Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology, Food Safety Guide, Mahasarakham Journal of Science and Technology, Health Review etc. He has the served on numerous international society boards and national government boards. He is a member of FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Human Nutrition. He is a president elect of Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society, and is a Vice-President of Asia Vegetarian Union. He has been a fellow of China National Food and Nutrition Consultation Committee, a Standing committee member of the China Food Safety Consultation Committee, and a member of the Zhejiang Food Safety Experts Consultation Committee. He is currently the Director of the Ethics Committee and a member of the Scientific Board, College of Biosystem Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University.
He has organized or chaired various international scientific conferences such as the International Symposium on the Evolution of Food Safety and Nutrition, in October 2002, in Hangzhou, China; the Joint ZAST/IUNS/WHO workshop on “Current Patterns and Emerging Challenges of Nutrition cuisine and health”, in October 2003, Hangzhou, China; and the Joint International Clinical Nutrition Conference of the International Union of Nutritional Science (8th ISCN-IUNS) and the Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society (5th APCNS), in Oct 2006, Hangzhou, China.
Duo has published more than 200 scientific papers and 6 books or book chapters. Duo received Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society Award in 2007; an Award for the Promotion of Student Nutrition and Health Tasks in 2004 in China; Australian Postgraduate Awards in 1995, 1996 and 1997; a Zhejiang Science and Technology System award from the Science and Technology Association, Zhejiang Province, China; 1st Prize in Natural Science for the paper: “Relationship between platelet phospholipid fatty acid and mean platelet volume in healthy men”, Academic Committee of Natural Science, Zhejiang Province, China. His research group has integrated research themes on nutrition and food safety in some five areas. The first is food bioactivity (anti-inflammation, anti-diabetes, anti-hypertension, anti-cancer, hypo-blood lipids etc) using whole foods, food ingredients, natural products, foods for health and functional foods, through in vitro studies, animal models and human clinical trials. The secondly is food safety evaluation, with an emphasis on the long term safety of foods. Third is the relationship between non-communicable diseases and habitual dietary intake. The fourth area is the evaluation of novel food sand potential natural nutrient resources, through compositional and physiological studies. Finally, his work examines how nutrients, food ingredients and natural products influence the expression of select genes.
