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1Jul

Texas A&M AgriLife Research recognizes outstanding achievers

Research Scientist of the Year Award: Robert Chapkin, Ph.D

Texas A&M AgriLife Research Professor Robert Chapkin, Ph.D., College Station, has made outstanding contributions to the areas of precision nutrition and stem cell biology, cancer chemoprevention and the development of noninvasive predictive biomarkers. Chapkin carries the title of Distinguished Professor in the Texas A&M University Department of Nutrition. He holds the Allen Endowed Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention, and he is a University Faculty Fellow, a Regents Fellow and an AgriLife Senior Faculty Fellow.

His achievements, in concert with innovation in basic research, have propelled Chapkin to securing unprecedented funding from the National Institutes of Health – National Cancer Institute. He serves as the co-director of a major NCI grant to conduct training on nutrition, biostatistics and bioinformatics. He is also an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.

Chapkin has published 271 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 27 book chapters and 305 abstracts, and is listed as co-inventor on three patents. His publications have been cited more than 16,000 times, demonstrating his influence in the fields of nutrition, cancer biology and computational biology.

He has mentored 15 master’s of science degree students and 24 doctoral students in biology, biochemistry and biophysics, nutrition, genetics, toxicology, biotechnology and molecular medicine, all in addition to mentoring 26 post-doctoral fellows.

Visit Chapkin’s profile page with the Texas A&M University Department of Nutrition.

Robert Chapkin in lab portrait
Robert Chapkin, Ph.D.

7Sep

Chapkin Lab receives a Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) High Impact High Risk Grant

Chapkin Lab  is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert Chapkin was awarded a $250,000 grant from The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). These funds will support the “Targeting Plasma Membrane Spatial Dynamics to Suppress Obesity-Induced Colon Cancer” project.

Research in the Chapkin lab focuses on dietary/microbial modulators related to the prevention of cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases. Our central goal is to (1) understand cancer chemoprevention at a fundamental level, and (2) to test pharmaceutical agents in combination with dietary/microbial (countermeasures to the Western diet) to more effectively improve gut health and reduce systemic chronic inflammation.

CPRIT awards annual grants through a competitive application and review process. For more on CPRIT awards at Texas A&M University, please view here.

Our laboratory is located on the first floor of the Nutrition and Food Sciences building, Cater Mattil on the Texas A&M West Campus.

For driving directions, start here.

Contact

Chapkin Laboratory
Lab Phone: 979-845-0448
Office Phone: 979-845-2142
E-mail: r-chapkin@tamu.edu

 

Address for U.S. Mail
Robert Chapkin
2253 TAMU, 112 Cater-Mattil
College Station, TX 77843-2253

 

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Robert Chapkin
373 Olsen Blvd.
College Station, TX 77843-2253

 

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