Dr. Stan Kubow

Stan Kubow is an Associate Professor at the School of Human Nutrition at McGill University and an honorary Associate Professor at University of Hong Kong and The University of Queensland. He has published more than 170 peer-reviewed research articles focused primarily on the impact of food components, diet, and nutrition in a variety of human diseases and environmental pollutant exposures. His research involves cell and tissue culture, animal models and clinical intervention trials to evaluates the health modulating properties of prebiotics and probiotics, peptides and a wide variety of phytochemicals against metabolic and neurological disorders and environmental pollutant toxicities. This research involves assessment of biomarkers of redox status, inflammation, metabolomics and the gut microbiome to explore mechanisms of action. He is ranked among the list that represents the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists in the world according to the composite citation index released by Stanford University. He serves on the editorial boards of Microorganisms, Nutrients, and Foods and participates as a grant panel member of Tri-council funding agencies including Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He is recruited regularly by industry to support nutritional, toxicological, biochemical research investigations via grant and research contract support.