Robert J CousinsRobert J. Cousins is the Boston Family Professor of Nutrition and Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida. He has a B.A. from the University of Vermont and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and was a National Institutes of Health (NIH) ostdoctoral Fellow in Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin. He has been President and Board Chair of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and President of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN). He has received numerous awards including the Mead Johnson Award, the Osborne and Mendel Award of the ASN, the NIH MERIT Award, the United States Department of Agriculture Secretary's Honor Award, the American College of Nutrition Research Award, the Bristol-Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Biomedical (Nutrition) Research, the Dannon Institute Mentorship Award, and Distinguished Scientist Award from the International Society for Trace Element Research in Humans. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2000. He is the editor of The Annual Review of Nutrition. His research is on the molecular and cell biology of zinc metabolism, nutrition, transport, and function. He teaches graduate courses in Mineral Nutrition and Analytical Techniques in Nutrition. He served as an editor for the tenth edition of Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease. Read More Read Less