Organizing Committee Member
Youn-Soo Cha
President
Korean Nutrition Society
South Korea
Biography
Youn-Soo Cha has completed her PhD from the University of Tennessee. Currently, she is a professor in the Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Chonbuk National University in S.Korea. Her research area includes analysing the health benefit of various foods including Korean traditional fermented foods and their bioactive compounds, through cell line and animal studies and clinical trial. Especially, her current focus is on providing a scientific research to establish Korean paradox, based on an epidemiological observation that Korean people have low incidence of hypertension, CHD etc., even though they mainly consume Korean traditional fermented foods that contains high amount salt. Dr. Cha has published more than 190 papers in reputed journals and is member of Korean Academy of Science. Now, she is the president of the Korean Nutrition Society (2018), the AgroBioFood R&D Institute and the Obesity Research Center of Chonbuk National University.
Research Area
Nutrition