Lisa is a former professional ballet dancer who earned her Bsc. in Clinical Nutrition from New York University, summa cum laude. While there, she engaged in the research and public health communities of New York City-- she spent time working in an eating disorder research unit at Columbia University, as well as working on nutrition education initiatives and harm reduction strategies for formerly homeless new yorkers living with HIV. She subsequently also worked at Columbia University, managing a broad portfolio of phase I/II/III breast cancer clinical trials, and earned a performance award for this work. Her many forays into chronic disease management drove her interest in looking upstream and towards prevention, leading to her interest in perinatal health. She took this interest with her to Denmark, where she was awarded a government fellowship in research and earned an MSc. in
Human Nutrition. Her work in Denmark focused on prenatal health. In her externship she collaborated with WorldFish organization to explore the impact of small fish consumption for dietary calcium needs in Odisha, India, and in her thesis she explored the impact of a high protein low glycemic index diet on blood pressure during pregnancy. She is currently a NIH T32 trainee in maternal and child nutrition, studying the role of maternal choline supplementation on offspring development and the maternal immune system, for which she has won several research awards. She employs translational approaches (RNA sequencing, interventional trials, and epidemiological analyses) to probe her research questions. Longterm, she hopes to improve maternal health and child outcomes, particularly in low-income and at-risk populations. When she is not in her office or in the lab, Lisa enjoys running, cooking, and spending time with her husband, her dog, and her cat.

NIH T32 Fellow in Maternal and Child Nutrition: Strupp Maternal Choline Lab

Mellor C, Larson EA, Wang M. Mechanisms of genome instability from cellular folate stress. J Cell Biol. 2025 Sep 1;224(9):e202502205. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202502205. Epub 2025 Aug 18. PMID: 40824400; Roth SA, Lam AE, Strupp BJ, Canfield RL, Larson EA. The Effect of Maternal Choline Intake on Offspring Cognition in Adolescence: Protocol for a 14-year Follow-Up of a Randomized Controlled Feeding Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Jul 11;14:e73508. doi: 10.2196/73508. PMID: 40644695.; Larson EA, Smith LE, Perng W, Switkowski KM, Rifas-Shiman SL, Oken E. The Interplay of Dietary Choline and Methyl Donors in Modulating Maternal Inflammation: Insights from Project Viva. J Nutr. 2025 May 5:S0022-3166(25)00278-0. doi: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.04.032. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40334784.; Larson EA, Dalamaga M, Magkos F, The role of exercise in obesity-related cancers: current evidence and biological mechanisms. Seminars in Cancer Biology. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcancer.2023.02.008; Bader-Larsen KS*, Larson EA*, Dalamaga M, Magkos F. A Narrative Review of the Safety of Anti-COVID-19 Nutraceuticals for Patients with Cancer. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Dec 3;13(23):6094. doi: 10.3390/cancers13236094. PMID: 34885202; PMCID: PMC8656592.; Larson EA, Bader-Larsen KS, Magkos F. The effect of COVID-19-related lockdowns on diet and physical activity in older adults: a systematic review. Aging and Disease. 2021. doi:10.14336/AD.2021.0606; Larson EA, Magkos F, Zingenberg H, Svare J, Astrup A, Geiker NRW. A high protein low glycemic index diet has no adverse effect on blood pressure in pregnant women with overweight or obesity: a secondary data analysis of a randomized clinical trial. Front Nutr. 2023 Nov 21;10:1289395. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1289395. PMID: 38075210; PMCID: PMC10702593Larson EA, ; Larson EA, Zhao Z, Bader-Larsen KS, Magkos F. Egg consumption and growth in children: a meta-analysis of interventional trials. Front Nutr. 2024 Jan 5;10:1278753. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1278753. PMID: 38249601; PMCID: PMC10796599 

B.S., New York University
M.S., Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen