Our People

The Center for Advanced Nutrition (CAN), led by a team of internationally-recognized scientists with an impressive history of experience and expertise, fosters interaction and conducts research with private commerce and academic institutions at state, national, and international levels.

The CAN Associates Group meets with CAN faculty and staff on a monthly basis to share research discoveries and to identify collaborative opportunities. Its members consist of exceptional, dedicated USU researchers from the departments of Nutrition and Food Science, Natural Resources, Psychology, Biology, and Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences.

The CAN staff and Associates gather for some fun at Dr. York's house.

Visiting Researcher and Physician

Collaborates on Obesity

Dr. Junfeng He is a researcher and a physician of Traditional Chinese Medicine working with CAN to exchange nutrition research techniques focusing on treating obesity

The Center for Advanced Nutrition is excited to welcome Dr. Junfeng He as a visiting scholar from China for a one-year period. He brings, among other things, experience in immunohistochemistry and electrophysiology.

He received an award from the China Association of Chinese Medicine’s Science and Technology Progress Prize for his “Research on the effects of acupuncture at acupoints in Foot-Yangming-Meridian to the Stomach” project in 2007, the same year he received the “Young Excellent Teacher of Hunan Province Award”. He recently participated in a science project entitled “Establishment of Rat Bronchitis Model TCM’s Deficiency of Kidney and Spleen”. His visit to USU is sponsored by a grant from the China Scholarship Council. (more)