Debasis Bagchi PhD, MACN, CNS, MAIChE

Debasis Bagchi received his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry in 1982. He is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Houston, College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. Dr. Bagchi is also the Chief Scientific Officer of Cepham Inc., Piscataway, NJ. Dr. Bagchi received the Master of American College of Nutrition Award in early October 2010.

Debasis Bagchi is currently the Chairman of the International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods (ISNFF), Immediate Past President of the American College of Nutrition, Clearwater, FL, and Past Chair of the Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Division of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), Chicago, IL. He is serving as a Distinguished Advisor at the Japanese Institute for Health Food Standards, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Bagchi is a Member of the Study Section and Peer Review Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD.

Dr. Bagchi has 303 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 25 books, and numerous patents. Dr. Bagchi is a Member of the Society of Toxicology, a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Nutrition Research Academy, and a Member of the TCE stakeholder Committee of the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. Dr. Bagchi is the Associate Editors of the Journal of Functional Foods and the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and also serving as an Editorial Board Member of numerous peer-reviewed journals, including Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Cancer Letters, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, The Original Internist, and others.