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Gary L Johanning

Biography

 Gary L. Johanning, MS, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine at the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Bastrop TX. He received his B.S., M.S. and PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Missouri at Columbia and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Biochemistry Department at Case Western Reserve University. He is an Editorial Board Member of Cancer Management and Research and The Open Lung Cancer Journal, and is Associate Editor of Nutrition and Dietary Supplements. He has been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and several foundations. He is a member of the Executive Committee of The Nutritional Sciences Council. His primary research interests include micronutrients and their effect on chemotherapy efficacy, nutrition and cancer, endogenous retroviruses, and cancer prevention and immunotherapy. Johanning has been a principal investigator on several grants funded by the National Institutes of Health and several foundations. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 publications, reviewed manuscripts for more than 25 journals, and is on the editorial board of five journals. Johanning obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He then completed postdoctoral fellowships in nutritional biochemistry, both at Missouri and at Case-Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He has mentored several M.S. and Ph.D. students.

Research Interest

 micronutrients and their effect on chemotherapy efficacy, nutrition and cancer, endogenous retroviruses, and cancer prevention and immunotherapy

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