Teruyoshi (Terry) Yanagita

Teru Yanagita received his Ph.D. degree from Kyushu University in l975. In 1975, Teru joined the faculty of Saga University and then jointed the faculty of Nishikyushu University in 2012. His research area is nutritional biochemistry and lipid metabolism and health. His recent work involves food factors preventing the metabolic syndromes.

 

Teru has published many peer-reviewed original papers, 50 chapters and review articles and monographs dealing with various aspects o f lipid metabolism and health. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of Japan J. of Nutrition and Food Science, Lipids in Health and Disease, Medical Science Monitor, and Journal of Ole Science, Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Advisory Board member of ISBAB and European J. of Lipid Science and Technology.

 

Teru has been a member of the Board of Directors of Japan Society of Nutrition and Food Science and he served as Vice-President in 2008-2010. He also had been a member of the Boards of Directors of Japan Society of Oleo Science, Japan Society o f Study on Obesity, Japan Society of Atherosclerosis, Japan Society of Lipid Biochemistry, and Japan Society of Lipid Nutrition.