Floyd "Ski" Chilton

Dr. Floyd “Ski” Chilton is a professor in the School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness and Director of the Center for Precision Nutrition and Wellness at the University of Arizona. He is an innovator in a wide range of areas including an academic professor (+170 scientific publications), an entrepreneur (five companies and one non-profit organization), and an inventor (+10 patents). He is also a bestselling author of six lay books on physical and mental health.

His research focuses on three main areas: 1) precision nutrition with an emphasis on disease prevention; 2) the role of genetic diversity and gene-diet interactions in driving human diseases that lead to racial/ethnic health disparities; and 3) the use of the combination of genomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics to determine: a disease’s status, identify biomarkers and molecular networks of human health and disease, and to discern underlying molecular networks that drive human disease and health disparities. Dr. Chilton has had funding for over 40 years from the National Institutes of Health in the U.S.

He is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Society for Nutrition, and the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum. He also sits on the executive boards that help guide non-profit associations like Heroes Helping Heroes, The Persecution Project, and the World Shoe Fund.

He has received numerous prestigious awards including the Alumni Award for Academic and Professional Achievement from Western Carolina University, and the Established Investigator Award from Wake Forest School of Medicine. Recently, the University of Arizona honored him with both the Outstanding Research Impact Award and the Inventor of the Year Award. He is also a member of the National Academy of Inventors.

Floyd "Ski" Chilton joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as Distinguished Visiting Professor in Functional Genomics for the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine
• Ph.D., Biochemistry, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• B.S., Biology/Chemistry, Western Carolina University (cum laude)

• Sun S, Hara A, Johnstone L, Hallmark B, Lu E, Watkins JC, Thomson CA, Schembre SM, Sergeant S, Umans J, Yao G, Zhang HH, Chilton FH. Differential Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation on Myocardial Infarction Risk Among African and European Americans: A Secondary Analysis Utilizing Optimal Pair Matching and Machine Learning Predictions. Nutrients. 16(17), 2933 https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16172933 (2024).
• Mullins, A.V., Snider, J.M., Michael, B. et al. Impact of fish oil supplementation on plasma levels of highly unsaturated fatty acid-containing lipid classes and molecular species in American football athletes. Nutr Metab (Lond) 21, 43 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12986-024-00815-x
• Lu E, Hara A, Sun S, Hallmark B, Snider J, Seeds M, Watkins J, McCall CE, Zhang H, Yao G, Chilton FH. Temporal associations of plasma levels of the secreted phospholipase A2 family and mortality in severe COVID-19. Eur J Immunol. 2024 Jun;54(6):e2350721. doi: 10.1002/eji.202350721. Epub 2024 Apr 23.PMID: 38651231, 2024.
• Chilton FH, Manichaikul A, Yang C, O’Connor TD, Johnstone LM, Blomquist S, Schembre, SM, Sergeant S, Zec M, Tsai MY, Rich SS, Bridgewater SJ, Mathias RA, Hallmark B. Interpreting clinical trials with omega-3 supplements in the context of ancestry and FADS genetic variation Front Nutr. 8;8:808054.doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.808054. PMID: 35211495, PMCID: PMC8861490, 2022.
• Sergeant S, Keith BA, Seeds MC, Legins JA, Young CB, Vitolins MZ and Chilton FH. Impact of FADS gene variation and dietary fatty acid exposure on biochemical and anthropomorphic phenotypes in a Hispanic/Latino cohort. Front. Nutr. 10:1111624. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1111624, 2023

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