Principal Investigator
Dr. Vacanti earned a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Connecticut, an MS in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego. His postdoctoral work was performed in the Department of Oncology and Pathology at Karolinska Institutet. He joined the faculty in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University as an assistant professor of Molecular Nutrition in the autumn of 2018.
Nathaniel Vacanti, Ph.D.
Ph.D. Students
Heesoo Jeong earned her BS and MS in Food and Nutrition at Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, Korea where she examined molecular crosstalk between nutrition and ageing and dietary impacts on lipid profiles. She joined the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University as a Ph.D. student in the autumn of 2018 where she combines the application of proteomic, bioinformatic, and targeted metabolic investigative methods to deduce protein regulatory networks controlling cellular metabolism.
Heesoo Jeong, M.S.
Darius Fox, B.S.
Tong Chen, B.S.