Director, Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture
Texas A&M
College Station, Texas, United States
Patrick J. Stover, Ph.D.
Director
Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture
Texas A&M University System
Patrick J. Stover, Ph.D., is the director of the Institute for Advancing Health through Agriculture (IHA) at Texas A&M University. The IHA is the world’s first research institute to bring together precision nutrition, responsive agriculture, and behavioral research to reduce diet-related chronic disease in a way that considers environmental and economic effects. With support from the United States Department of Agriculture – Agriculture Research Service (USDA-ARS) and the State of Texas, the IHA conducts research that improves linkages between agriculture, food and human health, and includes an embedded USDA-ARS program.
As an international leader in biochemistry, agriculture and nutrition, Stover’s research focuses on the biochemical, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie the relationships between nutrition, food fortification and human pathologies such as developmental anomalies, neuropathies and cancer. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also former president of the American Society for Nutrition and has served two terms on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Food and Nutrition Board. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Clinton, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.
Stover has over 23 years of academic leadership experience, serving as vice chancellor and dean for agriculture and life sciences at Texas A&M AgriLife, director of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, and director the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Saint Joseph’s University, a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from the Medical College of Virginia and completed his postdoctoral studies in nutritional sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
The W.O. Atwater Memorial Award Lecture: Enhancing the Purpose of Food
Sunday, July 23, 2023
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
Disclosure(s): Annual Review of Nutrition: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Marabou Foundation: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
PNAS Nexus: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Sunday, July 23, 2023
2:10 PM – 2:50 PM ET
Disclosure(s): Annual Review of Nutrition: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Marabou Foundation: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
PNAS Nexus: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Sunday, July 23, 2023
2:50 PM – 3:00 PM ET
Disclosure(s): Annual Review of Nutrition: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
Marabou Foundation: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
PNAS Nexus: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)