Associate Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

Chen, H. (2025). Modifying Microbial Risk of Colorectal Neoplasia—A Precision Nutrition Study of Magnesium Supplementation, TRPM7 Genotypes, and Gut Microbiome. Journal of Nutrition, 155(11), 3582-3583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2025.08.037

Pramana, A. A. C., Xu, G. B., Liang, S., Vazquez, E. O. G., Allen, J. M., Loman, B. R., Mei, W., Pan, Y. X., & Chen, H. (2025). Gut microbiota dysbiosis in a novel mouse model of colitis potentially increases the risk of colorectal cancer. American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, 328(6), G831-G847. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpgi.00040.2025

Vidana Gamage, H. E., Albright, S. T., Smith, A. J., Farmer, R., Shahoei, S. H., Wang, Y., Fink, E. C., Jacquin, E., Weisser, E., Bautista, R. O., Henn, M. A., Schane, C. P., Nelczyk, A. T., Ma, L., Das Gupta, A., Bendre, S. V., Nguyen, T., Tiwari, S., Krawczynska, N., ... Nelson, E. R. (2024). Development of NR0B2 as a therapeutic target for the re-education of tumor associated myeloid cells. Cancer Letters, 597, Article 217086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2024.217086

Vidana Gamage, H. E., Shahoei, S. H., Wang, Y., Jacquin, E., Weisser, E., Bautista, R. O., Henn, M. A., Schane, C. P., Nelczyk, A. T., Ma, L., Das Gupta, A., Bendre, S. V., Nguyen, T., Tiwari, S., Tjoanda, E., Krawczynska, N., He, S., Albright, S. T., Farmer, R., ... Nelson, E. R. (2024). NR0B2 re-educates myeloid immune cells to reduce regulatory T cell expansion and progression of breast and other solid tumors. Cancer Letters, 597, Article 217042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2024.217042

Han, X., Zhou, Q., Gao, Z., Bianca Xu, G., Chen, H., Chitrakar, B., Sun, Y., Zhao, W., Lin, X., Zhou, K., & Zhang, Z. (2023). Characterization of procyanidin extracts from hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida) in human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line Caco-2, simulated Digestion, and fermentation identified unique and novel prebiotic properties. Food Research International, 165, Article 112393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2022.112393

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