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J. Thomas Brenna, PhD

Curriculum Vitae (Abbreviated Web Version)

December2011

Educational and Professional

2000-presentProfessor of Human Nutrition and of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Division of Nutritional Sciences, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, New York, USA. 1989-1995 Assistant Professor; 1995-2000 Associate Professor. Member of Cornell Graduate Faculties of Food Science and Technology, and of Geological Sciences.

2006-presentAdjunct Professor, Dept of Community and Preventative Medicine, University of Rochester College of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York.

2001-2007Director of Undergraduate Studies, Div of Nutritional Sci, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, New York.

1985-1989Staff Scientist, Advanced Technology Development Laboratory, IBM Corporation, Endicott, NY. Founding Director of the Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry Laboratory.

1988-1989Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept of Chemistry, Binghamton University, New York.

1985/1982PhD/MS Chemistry, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, NY. Thesis advisor: G. H. Morrison.

1980BScum laude, Nutritional Biochemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Undergrad. Research Technician, Lipids Lab(with R. G. Jensen), Dept. of Nutr. Sci., UConn (1978-80).

Professional Experience

Summary: PrincipalInvestigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH): National Center for Research Resources (R01 RR 031264, 2010-15), National Institute for General Medical Sciences (R01 GM71534, 2004-2009; R01 GM49209, 1992-2006); National Institute of Child Health Human Development (R21 & R03 2006-2010); National Eye Institute (R01 EY10208, 1994-2003);United States Antidoping Agency;Partnership for Clean Competition; numerous industry/private grants. Our research laboratory averages10-15 fulltime members and is focused on fatty acid metabolism, development of high precision isotopic, molecular, and elemental mass spectrometry for biomedical applications, and high precision isotope ratio mass spectrometryin doping control research.

Author/co-author of 200 peer-reviewed publications; 1 U.S. patent/several pending. 100 invited presentations

Scientific Service (recent, selected)

FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Fats and Fatty Acids in Human Nutrition, Panelist & author, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008-11.

  • Research Proposal Reviews (selected):

NIH: 2010 Shared Research Instrumentation-Mass Spectrometry (Study Section Chairman); 2008(March) NIGMS Large Scale Collaboration(Glue grant) & P01 (August); 2001-2007 Biol Chem Macromolecular BiophysicsStudy Section.2004 Metabolomics Panel,NIH Director’s Roadmap; 2004 NCI Innovative Technologies for Molecular Analysis of Cancer; 1997, 2009 NIH Intramural Reviews

Other: World Antidoping Agency (WADA) Research grants program, 2007; NSF Major Research Instrumentation, Chemistry Division. 2006, 2004; Louisiana Board of Regents Chemical Instrumentation Review Panel, 2008, 2005, 2002.

  • 2001-2009 Member, Board of Directors, Int Soc Study Fatty Acids Lipids (ISSFAL; electedtwice); 2007-2010. Member, National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition Maternal Nutrition Group. 2005 European Commission-sponsored Perilip Group (2005).
  • Expert Witness (selected). Infant nutrition, Federal Court, Eastern District of Virginia (2009). Gas Chromatography (GC) and GC-combustion isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GCC-IRMS), American Arbitration Association (2007) and The Court of Arbitration for Sport (2008).
  • Meeting Co-organizer (selected). 2012. ASMS Asilomar Conference: Mass Spectrometry in Food Safety and Quality. 2011. DHA in Translational Medicine. Fatty acids and cell signaling (FACS-10),New Orleans, LA (Guest Editor, Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and Essential Fatty Acids (PLEFA). 2010. A Celebration of DHA, London, UK. 2008. DHA as an Essential Nutrient, Co-editor of PLEFASupplement. 2007. Fatty acids and cell signaling (FACS-8), Quebec City, Canada (Guest Editor, PLEFA 77(6): FACS-8Proceedings.) 2002, 6th Congress of ISSFAL, Montreal, Canada. Symposia: Lipids and mass spectrometry. ASMS 1999 (Portland), 2008 (Denver); 2006 (Cairns) ISSFAL; 2008 (SaltLake) ABRF.