Sander Kersten, Ph.D. is the director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences and the Schleifer Family Professor at Cornell University. Dr. Kersten received his MSc degree in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University , Netherlands in 1993, and his Ph.D. degree in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University in 1997. After a postdoctoral stay in the laboratory of Dr. Walter Wahli at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, he moved back to Wageningen University in 2000 with a career development grant from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was appointed to Associate Professor in 2006 and Full Professor in 2011. In 2014 he became Chair of the Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics group and in 2019 Chairman of the Division of Human Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University. In January 2024, he moved back to Ithaca as the director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences.
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Learn From Top Minds
Courses are developed by Cornell faculty.
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Participate in facilitated discussions and live sessions with industry peers.
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Division Director; Schleifer Family Professor in the College of Human Ecology Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University
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- Gain actionable nutritional recommendations to improve metabolic health through discussion of the underlying science
- Develop an understanding of the four key components of metabolic health and the five ways to best measure it
- Draw a correlation between obesity and the numerous negative health conditions caused by it
- Examine the collective vs. individual approach to combating obesity and consider what role, if any, the government should play
- Discover the latest research findings on the innovative concept of precision nutrition

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