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The Fourth NACAN Summit Frontiers in Nutrition - The Joint Nutrition Scientific Symposium with meeting theme — "Nutrition for a healthy life: from the production of foods to healthy eating for everyone" — was held virtually via Zoom between Jul. 22-24, 2022. Thanks to all our collaborators, sponsors, speakers and attendees, together we made a great success this year and we look forward to future networking! If you registered for the continuing education unit (CEU) credits, please note that we are still working on issuing certificate and we expect to finish it by 07/31/2022.

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The joint symposium will serve the missions of the NACAN and co-sponsors - Chinese American Food Society (CAFS), China Food Publishing Co, (CFPC), Guangdong Nutrition Society (GNS), Hebei Nutrition Society (HNS), College of Food Science and Engineering at Nanjing University Of Finance & Economics (NUFE) -  to provide a platform for networking, collaboration, and scientific exchange among nutritionists, dietitians, food scientists, and other scientists and professionals across disciplines of health and/or life sciences from NACAN and Chinese partners. We welcome participants working as researchers, graduate students, professionals, policymakers and other related career to join us. 

 

There will be four 3-hour sessions during the symposium. Each session contains four 30-min oral presentations for established speakers and four 15-min oral presentations for junior faculty (Assistant Professor or equivalent), and trainees (i.e., postdocs/graduate students). Each session will be chaired by two persons nominated by the Symposium Organizing Committee. Details on program agenda, session topics and symposium Zoom link will be released here.

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Special thanks to our sponsor - New Hope Dairy and InnovHope

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The 2022 Joint Nutrition Symposium Organizing Committee

Co-chairs

 Yuan-Xiang Pan, PhD and Shelly Lei Xu, PhD

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Members (alphabetically ordered by last name)

Sheau Ching Chai, PhD, RD, University of Delaware

Zhi Chai, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Guoxun Chen, PhD, University of Tennessee

Yong Fang, PhD, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics

Xinfu Guan, PhD, Bayou Institute for Health

Lei Hao, PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Yuxia Ma, PhD, Hebei Nutrition Society

Yong Sun, PhD, China Food Publishing Co.

Chaodong Wu, MD, PhD, Texas A&M University

Zhiping Yu, PhD, RDN, LDN, University of North Florida

Ling Zhao, PhD, University of Tennessee

Yan Zhao, Prof. Beijing Academy of Food Sciences

Jin-Rong Zhou, PhD, Harvard University

Huilian Zhu, PhD, Guangdong Nutrition Society

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For general presenter questions, please email nacanmembership@outlook.com.

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Featured with Frontiers in Nutrition, we proposed a research topic aims to showcase the research contributed to the summit, however presentation at the symposium is not required for submission. We welcome Original Research and Review articles from both the presenters and outside researchers to address the 4 themes:
• Emerging fields of research: New and innovative areas, especially revolutionary and/or multi-disciplinary approaches that address fundamental questions in nutrition, food, and health sciences.
• Scientific base of nutrition: Mechanistic studies that decipher the underlying links between nutrients, diet, and chronic diseases.
• Agriculture and food production: Functional foods, bioactive compounds, nutraceuticals and novel food processing technologies that improve human health.
• Nutrition and public health: Clinical and population-based studies that examine the role of diet, food, and nutrition in health and disease.

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Manuscripts will be submitted and published in these following sections:

Nutritional Epidemiology

Nutrition and Metabolism

Nutrition and Food Science Technology

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check here for journal info!

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