Taesun Park

Professor of Food and Nutrition, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

Taesun Park holds a B.S. and M.S. in Nutrition from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, and University of Massachusetts, respectively. She earned a Doctorate in nutrition from the University of California, Davis in 1991, and completed her postdoctoral training in molecular biology at Stanford University and Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute. In 1995 she joined the faculty at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea in the Department of Food and Nutrition. She is currently serving as a committee member of Health Functional Food, KFDA, and of Korean Broadcasting Review Commission, specialized in food labeling and advertisement. Her current research interest lies in examining the molecular and cellular basis of diet-induced obesity and related metabolic diseases in animal models and pursuing the novel molecular markers of obesity which could eventually be applied to humans. Application of nutrigenomics technology in understanding the molecular mechanisms for anti-obesity  effects of diverse phytochemicals   has been her recently growing research agenda.