My research program focuses on the roles of food components on growth, development, as well as in prevention of diseases such as diabetes, and coronary heart disease.
The "Fruitflow" is the first approved functional food by the European Food Safety Authority as having a positive effect in the prevention of blood platelet aggregation.
1987 Elizabeth Kushnir Memorial Award for Prostaglandin research by the American Heart Association
1996 Hoffman La Roche Award for feto-placental research at the International Conference on PUFA Nutrition and Disease Prevention, Barcelona, Spain
