Nutrition Journal

Rikard Landberg, PhD, Co-Editor-in-Chief

Professor Rikard Landberg is the head of Division of Food and Nutrition Science at ChalmersNew Content Item University of Technology, Sweden (n=50) and visiting professor at the Wallenberg laboratory, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg.

The multidisciplinary group of Landberg studies the preventive role of (plant-based) foods and dietary patterns using observational- and intervention studies. Landberg is the PI of several RCTs on the role of plant- based foods in appetite and body weight regulation and on cardiometabolic disease risk. He has also studied the impact of such foods and components on gut health and IBS. So far, the team has conducted about 15 trails including more than 1500 participants: from small acute studies to investigate fundamental mechanisms of specific dietary components on human physiology to large scale long-term randomized controlled trials to substantiate EU health claims. Landberg also leads studies to test novel OMICs-based personalized concepts for improved CVD prevention. Metabolomics is a key technique used for discovery and validation of exposure- and prediction biomarkers, and for molecular phenotyping as the basis for tailored dietary strategies for personalized nutrition. Novel food intake biomarkers for whole grain intake, fish, coffee and dietary patterns have emerged and been validated and implemented widely by the international research community. The Landberg group uses well established cohorts from Sweden (SIMPLER, Northern Disease and Health Study), Denmark (Danish Diet Cancer and Health – Next Generation cohort) and from Europe (European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition). Professor Landberg has authored ~220 papers, ~10 book chapters, delivered ~30 invited/keynote lectures and is the editor of one book. He has an H-index of 45 according to Scopus. Professor Landberg is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science and of the National Committee for Nutrition and Food Science at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Qi Sun, MD, Sc.D., Co-Editor-in-Chief

Associate Professor of Medicine in Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical SchoolNew Content Item

Dr. Qi Sun is Associate Professor of Medicine in Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is also Associate Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Sun’s primary research interests include identifying and examining biomedical risk factors, particularly dietary biomarkers, in relation to type 2 diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease through epidemiological investigations. His research is primarily based on several large-scale cohort studies including the Nurses’ Health Studies and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Dr. Sun is also interested in understanding the role of environmental pollutants, such as perfluoroalkyl substances and legacy persistent organic pollutants, in the etiology of weight change and type 2 diabetes. In the era of precision nutrition, Dr. Sun develops a new research interest of understanding the role of microbiome in mediating and modulating diet-health associations. Dr. Sun is currently leading a few NIH-funded projects that focus on food biomarker discovery and validation, diet-microbiome-health inter-relationships, as well as associations between obesogens and weight change in human populations.