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Joeva Barrow, Ph.D., R.D. is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Nutrition at Cornell University Division of Nutritional Sciences. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in 2006 before completing her Masters and combined Dietetic internship program at the University of Florida in 2008 where she was certified as a Registered Dietitian.

While working at the frontlines in clinical dietetics providing medical nutrition therapy to patients with metabolic diseases, Dr. Barrow quickly discovered that despite the

I am driven by medical and economic consequence of age-related weight gain. Age-related weight gain is a description of the epidemiological fact that as we grow older, we are growing fatter. And the fatter we grow, the serious medical consequences become causing increased suffering financial costs. We have been studying obesity for several hundreds of years and despite our knowledge of the consequence of obesity we cannot tell the public how to prevent from growing fatter. I

Dr. Uyar obtained his Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC, USA), College of Textiles, Fiber & Polymer Science in September 2005. Currently, Dr. Uyar is an Associate Professor of Fiber Science at Department of Human Centered Design, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University. Previously, Dr. Uyar was appointed as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Materials Science & Nanotechnology (UNAM) of Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) from 2014-2018 and Assistant Professor from 2009-2014. Previously, Dr. Uyar was