T Colin Campbell, PhD

T. Colin Campbell, PhD , has been at the forefront of nutrition research for more than fifty years. His legacy, the China Study, was, at that time, the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University. He has received more than seventy grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 350 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a...See more

T. Colin Campbell, PhD , has been at the forefront of nutrition research for more than fifty years. His legacy, the China Study, was, at that time, the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University. He has received more than seventy grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 350 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a twenty-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventative Medicine. In 1997, it was cited by the Chinese Ministry of Health as the most important study in medicine in China from 1978-1997. He also has been a member of several expert panels on food, nutrition, and health, especially those of the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Institutes of Health. He has been the recipient of three lifetime achievement awards. See less