José M. Ordovás Nutrition and Genetics Professor Director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory JM-USDA-Human Nutrición Research Center and School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA USA José M. Ordovás, PhD, (born in Zaragoza, Spain in 1956) is Professor of Nutrition and a Senior Scientist at the USDA-Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts where he also is the Director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory. He is a Senior Collaborating Scientist at the CNIC, Madrid, Dr. Ordovas was educated in Spain at the University of Zaragoza where he completed his undergraduate work in chemistry (1978) and received his doctorate in the topic of Human Lipoprotein Metabolism (1982). He did postdoctoral work at the MIT, Harvard and Tufts. Dr. Ordovas’ major research interests focus on the genetic factors predisposing to cardiovascular disease and obesity and their interaction with the environment and behavioral factors with special emphasis on diet. He has published more than 740 scientific articles in peer review journals and written numerous reviews and books on these topics. In this regard, he is considered one of the most distinguished world experts in gene-diet interactions related to cardiovascular traits. Moreover, he has trained in his laboratory over 60 scientists and his current genetic studies involve populations and investigators from all Continents. Throughout his career, Dr. Ordovas has received multiple honors for his scientific achievements including, among several others, the USDA Secretary’s Award, the Centrum American Nutrition Society Award; the Mary Swartz Award from the Dietetic Association; the Garry-Labbe Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, the Francisco Grande Memorial Lecture all for Excellence in Nutrition Research; The Rafael del Pino Foundation Lecture, the Turkish Genetics Society Award; the Jaén Paraíso Interior and AEMO awards for his contributions to the diffusion of the Mediterranean diet and the Olive oil; the Good Cholesterol award from Aviles and the Danone Foundation Award for achievements in Nutrition Research and Gold Medal of the Spanish Society of Cardiology and the Francisco Grande Award from the Fundacion Dieta Meditarranea. He has been awarded an honorary degree in Medicine bestowed by the University of Cordoba in Spain and the title of Member of the Royal Academies of Sciences, Medicine, Nutrition and Pharmacy, all of them in Spain. Dr. Ordovas serves on multiple editorial boards and is active with multiple international peer review and steering committees and advisory boards. CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Jose M. Ordovas DATE OF BIRTH: June, 17, 1956 BIRTHPLACE: Zaragoza, Spain EDUCATION: 1978 B.Sc. (Chemistry) University of Zaragoza (Spain) 1979 M.Sc. (Biochemistry) Univ. of Zaragoza (Spain) 1982 Ph.D. (Biochemistry) Univ. of Zaragoza (Spain) POSITIONS HELD 1978 - 1982 Teaching Assistant Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition. University of Zaragoza (Spain). 1982 - 1983 Research Associate, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 1983 - 1984 Research Associate, Dept. of Cardiology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. 1984 - 1985 Research Associate and Dana Research Fellow. Lipid Metabolism Laboratory, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. 1985 - 1986 Scientist III. Lipid Metabolism Laboratory. USDA HNRC at Tufts University. 1986 - 1991 Assistant Professor of Nutrition, Scientist II, USDA HNRC at Tufts University. 1991 - 1998 Associate Professor of Nutrition, Scientist I, USDA HNRC at Tufts University. Head of Molecular Biology Section, Lipid Metabolism Laboratory. Professor of Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. 2000 - Professor of Genetics, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences. 2001 - Director of Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, USDA HNRC at Tufts University. 2004 - 2006 Director of the Cellular and Molecular Nutrition Program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. 1 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, HONORS AND AWARDS PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Nutrition Expert consultant for Mexico and Central America, American Soybean Association (1995-1996). President of the International Conference on the Health Effects of omega3 Polyunsaturated fatty Acids, Granada, Spain (1995) President of the Nutrition Symposium. Latin-American Society of Atherosclerosis. Cancun, Mexico (1997) Director of the Course “The impact of lipids on cardiovascular disease”. Spanish Society of Atherosclerosis/American Heart Association (1998-1999) Visiting Professor, University of Costa Rica. (1997-1999) Visiting Professor, University of Cordoba, Spain (several occasions) Visiting Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain (several occasions) Guess Professor, Zhejiang University, People’s Republic of China (2009) Director of the Nutrition Course “Grande Covian”, Universidad Internacional Menendez Pelayo, Santander (2000) Organizer and Director Conference series “Living-well-to-100” (2007-2009). Expert Consultant to the Singapore Ministry of Health (2000) Member Scientific Advisory Board for Perlegen Sciences, Inc. Mountain View, CA (2000- 2006) Member Scientific Advisory Board for Interleukin Genetics, Inc. Waltham, MA (2000- Present) Member of the LSRO committee on Nutritional Genomics (2001-2002) Member of the Nutrigenomics Organization (NUGO) 2005-Present Secretary of the International Society of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics (2008-2010) External Scientific advisory committee for LIPGENE (2007-2010) External Scientific Advisory Committee for the UC Davis National Center for Health Disparities (2007-2009) Scientific Advisory Board for the California Avocado Comission. (2007-2009) Scientific Advisor International Olive Oil Council (1995-2000) Member Scientific Committee Fundación Española de la Nutrición (FEN) (2010-Present) Member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Health Benefits of Fish of the National Academies (2006-2009) Member of the Food and Nutrition Board, the National Academy of Sciences (2005- 2011) 2 Member of the Steering Committee of PHENX (National Human Genome Research Institute) (2008-Present) Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Banco Nacional de DNA, Spain (2008- Present) Member of the ARIC Observational Study Monitoring Board (2008-Present) Member of the Expert Scientific Panel of the Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative’s (GEI’s) genome-wide Association program, GENEVA. National Human Genome AResearch Institute (2008-Present) Member of the IMIBIC Scientific Advisory Panel (2010-Present) President of the CIBERDEM External Advisory Panel (2009-Present) President of the Board of Trustees of the Instituto Madrileno de Estudios Avanzados en Alimentacion (IMDEA) (2007-2011) President of the Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Trustees of IMDEA, Spain (2007- 2011 ) President Scientific Committee Centro de Investigación de Tecnología Agroalimentaria del Gobierno de Aragón, Soain (2007-Present) Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Institute of Health Sciences of Aragon, Spain Member Scientific Advisory Board of the UK Medical Research Council Centre in Brain Ageing and Vitality (2008) Member Scientific Advisory Board Food and Drug Administration, USA (2008-Present) Member of the Scientific Committee of the IMIBIC Center of Excellence (Spain) Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Centre for Aging Research. Chair Elect, Nutrient-Gene Interactions Research Interest Section, American Society for Nutrition Associate Editor Advances in Nutrition HONORS Francisco Grande Memorial Lecture, Sociedad Espanola de Arteriosclerosis (1998) Mary Swartz Rose Lecture Memorial from the Greater New York Dietetic Asssociation for Excellence in Nutrition (2007) Fundacion del Pino Lecturer (2007) Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. Zaragoza, Spain (2008) Honorary Degree in Medicine. University of Cordoba, Spain (2008) Fundacion del Pino Lecturer (2010) 3 Member of Honor, Royal Academy of Medicine. Zaragoza, Spain (2010) Member Spanish Academy of Nutrition (2010) Member Spanish Royal Academy of Pharmacy (2011) Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine (Murcia, Spain, 2012) Chair-Elect of the NGI-RIS. ASN AWARDS Outstanding Research Awards for Research in Genomics, Lipoproteins and Nutrition (2002) Jaén Paraíso Interior award for his contributions to the diffusion of the Mediterranean diet and the Olive oil (2005) AEMO Award for Excellent in Nutrition research related with the Olive Oil (2006) Turkish Genetics Society for his contributions to the development of Nutrigenomics (2005) USDA Secretary’s award (the highest award within the United States Department of Agriculture). "his work has significantly advanced the emerging field of nutritional genomics and provided a foundation for developing targeted dietary and lifestyle recommendations for given populations based on genetics" (2006) The American Association for Clinical Chemistry Award (2006) Centrum Award from the American Society of Nutrition "for recent investigative contributions of contemporary significance to the understanding of human nutrition" (2007) Good Cholesterol Award (Aviles, Spain) (2008) AACC Nutrition Division Garry Labbe Award (2008) Danone Institute Award to the Scientific Trajectory in Nutrition Research (2008) Gold Medal of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2009) Grande Covian Award, Sociedad