Dr Xiang Gao is the graduate of Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science (PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology in 2005). Currently, he is the Distinguished Professor and Dean of Institute of Nutrition, Fudan University. He is also the Chair of Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Fudan University School of Public Health. Formerly, he was Assistant Professor (2010-2014) at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor(2014-2020) and Full Professor (2020-2022) at the Penn State University. He was also the Schreyer Distinguished Honors Faculty at the Penn State University.
His research interests include nutritional epidemiology, neurological diseases, and aging. He has served as the PI of several NIH-funded R01/R21/R03 projects since 2009 to study risk factors and clinical consequences of sleep disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. He has published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals and served on several national committees, such as UNESCO International Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development Advisory Committee; Committee of nutrition, trauma, and the brain, Institute of Medicine(IOM); and American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He serves as co-editor of Nutrition Journal (IF=5.4).
Dr. Gao won the Irwin H. Rosenberg Pre-doctoral Award from the Jean Mayor USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts(2006), the Wayne A. Hening Sleep Medicine Investigator Award from the American Academy of Neurology (2011), the Leadership/Expertise Alumni Award from the Tufts Nutrition School (2012), the Samuel Fomon Young Physician Investigator Award from American Society for Nutrition(2015), the Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2020) from the Penn State University, the Top-Ten outstanding Lecture Award (2023) from Fudan University and the Research Achievement Award (2023) from Fudan University. He was selected into the Tufts Honorable Alumni Registry in 2015.
Dr Gao is also an active artist in Chinese calligraphy and seal carving. His calligraphy and seal carving were exhibited in the Chinese National Museum (Beijing) and Chinese Art Museum(Beijing) since 1994 . He served as a consultant for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 2005 to 2012. His work was collected by several museums in the US and China since 2008. Dr Gao has published ~30 articles regarding Chinese art history. In 2023, Dr Gao developed a new undergraduate core course of “Chinese Calligraphy” at Fudan University
Xiang Gao, NG05