 | Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, and Cancer: Dietary Approaches for Cancer Prevention Subjects: Bioscience; Food Science & Technology; Medicine Dentistry Nursing & Allied Health; Nutrition; Food Chemistry; Medicine; Oncology; Nutrition; Increasing scientific evidence suggests that the majority of diseases including cancer are driven by oxidative stress and inflammation, attributed to environmental factors. These factors either drive genetic mutations or epigenetically modify expression of key regulatory genes. These changes can occur as early as gestational fetal development, and Ah-Ng "Tony" Kong, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor (PII), Glaxo Endowed Chair Professor of Pharmaceutics, and director of the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He is also the director for the Center for Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics at Rutgers University. Dr. Kong has published more than 200 original research papers, review articles, and book chapters. He has chaired and given presentations in many national and international symposia and conferences and is currently serving on the board of 15 international journals. His research areas are in dietary phytochemicals (signaling and gene expression, nutrigenomics, cancer chemoprevention); animal tumor models of the prostate, colon, and skin; epigenetics/epigenomics; oxidative/redox/inflammatory stress response; Nrf2-mediated nuclear transactivation and signaling; and pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of phytochemicals. |
