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Chapkin, Robert

Robert Chapkin

Allen Endowed Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention, Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, University Faculty Fellow, and NCI R35 Outstanding Investigator
Office:  
111 Cater-Mattil, College Station, Texas
Email:  
[email protected]
Phone:  
979-845-0419
Resume/CV
Website: http://chapkinlab.tamu.edu/

Administrative Coordinator II: Elizabeth Szymanski

Education

Undergraduate Education
BSc. in Nutrition and Biochemistry, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1981
Graduate Education
MSc. in Nutrition, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, February 1983
Ph.D. in Nutrition and Physiological Chemistry, University of California, Davis, California, December 1986
Post-doc, Cell Biology, University of California – Davis, 1986-1988
Courses Taught
NUTR 203: Scientific Principles Nutrition

Areas of Expertise

Dr. Chapkin is an expert in dietary chemoprevention of colon cancer and inflammatory bowel diseases and has been continuously funded by NIH/NCI for the past 35 years. Highly significant contributions to cancer chemoprevention in five specific areas have been made during his career: (i) establishment of models for cancer prevention studies, (ii) elucidation of colon cancer epigenetics and signal transduction processes in the GI tract, (iii) investigation of the role of adaptive/innate immune response and chronic inflammation as a critical factor in colon cancer development, and its modulation by diet, (iv) membrane biology and nutritional modulation of epithelial and immune cell membrane structure and function, and (v) development of novel noninvasive Systems Biology-based methodologies to monitor diet/gene expression profiles and its application to translational research. These activities, together with a history of basic and translational (biomarkers) research using cutting-edge technologies, demonstrate Dr. Chapkin’s scientific credentials which make me a leader in the chronic disease prevention field.

Professional Summary

Dr. Chapkin has served as Chair of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition, Deputy Director of the Center for Translational Environmental Health Research (NIH P30ES023512), as well as Chair of the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) Study Section Panel; and is a past President of the Sigma Xi Texas A&M University Chapter.  He is an NIH/NCI R35-Outstanding Investigator Awardee and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow.  Utilizing extensive team building skills to reach across silos at the university, Dr. Chapkin has spearheaded the creation of a synergistically motivated.  Center of Excellence in Cancer Research at Texas A&M after receiving a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) on March 1, 2023.  As part of the leadership team (Deputy Director), the center is expected to catalyze the growth of cancer research programs and provide researchers with the infrastructure and institutional support they need.  The Center will recruit talented investigators to Texas A&M University, with an emphasis on individuals traditionally underrepresented in cancer research.  In addition, newly established core services that support state-of-the art cancer research have been established. The Single Cell ‘Omics Facility Core will support cancer faculty and their mentors, as well as the broader community, by facilitating project development in the areas of single cell ‘omics, including spatial information from individual cells. In addition, the Cancer Prevention Clinicogenomics Registry Core will provide context for implementation of translational strategies in support of cancer projects. The core will provide a systems-based patient-centric engagement framework to capture and address the cost and value data issues inherent to cancer prevention implementation.

Learn more at https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6515-3898 and see the latest updates from the Chapkin Lab at X formerly known as Twitter: @ChapkinLab.

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