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NutrInsight • Whole grain and health: new evidence
Appendix 2: Biographies of the speakers
Dr Jan Willem van der Kamp TNO, the Netherlands
jan-willem.vanderkamp@tno.nl
Jan Willem van der Kamp is at present Senior Officer International Projects in TNO Innovation for Life. After his graduation in chemistry at Utrecht University (1970) and a range of R&D activities in Unilever, he moved in 1985 to TNO as director of cereal and animal nutrition research.
As research manager his scope broadened, firstly in biotechnology and later on in the areas of food safety, nutrition and health and regulatory affairs. He has gained wide international experience, in the management and supervision of European projects, in scientific organisations - e.g. as President of ICC (International Association for Cereal Science and Technology) and International Director of AACC International - in the programming of international conferences all over the world and as invited speaker in such events.
He is serving on the editorial boards of the World Mycotoxin Journal and Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods.
For his contributions to cereal research he received ICC’s Friedrich Schweitzer Award. Van der Kamp’s recent activities related to cereal grains and -products include the management of knowledge transfer activities of the HEALTHGRAIN project and the newly established HEALTHGRAIN Forum (see www.healthgrain.org), start-up activities for a major HEALTHGRAIN Holland project and the editing of the recent book “Dietary Fibre - new frontiers for food and health”(Wageningen Academic Publishers).
Professor Chris Seal Newcastle University, UK
chris.seal@ncl.ac.uk
Chris Seal is Professor of Food & Human Nutrition at Newcastle University, where he has been working since 1983. He leads the Food Quality and Health research group in the School of Agriculture, Food & Rural Development (AFRD) and is Co-Director of the University’s Human Nutrition Research Centre. He is also Research Director for AFRD.
His research interests include how to encourage, and evaluate the effects of changing diet. A particular focus is promoting the adoption of healthy diets based on increased consumption of whole grain foods, fruits and vegetables. Chris has coordinated a number of intervention studies with volunteers to test the health benefits of eating these foods, including the WHOLEheart, GrainMark (see www.grainmark.org), and VegBP (see www.vegbp.org) studies funded by the Food Standards Agency. Professor Seal works closely with colleagues from the Nafferton Ecological Farming Group investigating the effects of organic, low input and conventional production systems on the nutritional value of foods.
His work is supported by the Food Standards Agency, Research Councils, and industry. Chris sits on many national and international research advisory committees and has recently joined “the breakfast panel” to promote breakfasts as part of a healthy lifestyle. In addition to his research, Chris is heavily involved with teaching; he is Degree Programme Director of the Food & Human Nutrition BSc degree at Newcastle University and has acted as external examiner for several undergraduate and postgraduate nutrition courses across the UK.
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