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Philip Calder, PhD, DPhil (he/him/his)

Professor of Nutritional Immunology
University of Southampton
Southampton, United Kingdom

Philip Calder is Professor of Nutritional Immunology and Head of the School of Human Development and Health in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. He has a PhD in Biochemistry (1987) from Massey University in New Zealand. He spent 8 years (1987-1995) at University of Oxford where he began his research on nutrition and immunity and on fatty acids. He was appointed at the University of Southampton in 1995. Professor Calder is an Internationally recognised researcher on a) nutritional immunology; b) the metabolism and functionality of fatty acids with an emphasis on the roles of omega-3 fatty acids. He has received many awards and prizes including the Nutricia International Award (2007), the Cuthbertson Lecture (ESPEN; 2008), the Normann Medal (German Society of Fat Science; 2009), the Ralph Holman Lifetime Achievement Award (American Oil Chemists’ Society; 2015), the prestigious Danone International Prize for Nutrition (2016), the DSM Lifetime Achievement Prize in Human Nutrition (2017), the European Lipid Science Award (2021), the Stephen S. Chang Award (American Oil Chemists’ Society; 2023), Hagler Fellowship (Texas A&M University; 2023) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (Global Organisation for EPA and DHA; 2024). He was President of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (2009-2012), Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (2012-2016), President of the Nutrition Society (2016-2019), President of the European Branch of the International Life Sciences Institute (2019-2021), and President of the Federation of European Nutrition Societies (2019-2023). Professor Calder was Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nutrition (2006-2013) and has served on many other Editorial Boards. He is currently Editopr in Chief of Lipids and Associate Editor of Clinical Science, Journal of Nutrition, Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism and Frontiers in Immunology. Professor Calder has published over 800 scientific articles excluding abstracts and is recognised as a highly cited author. He was co-author on ESPEN Guidelines on Parenteral Nutrition: intensive care (2009), ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit (2019) and Monitoring nutrition in the ICU (2019).

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