Dr. Naim Khan is a Professor of Physiology (Exceptional Class) at Burgundy University, Dijon (France). He is the Head of a Nutritional Physiology & Toxicology research team affiliated with the Inserm Research Center (UMR1231). He is the principal (co) author of more than 250 research peer-reviewed articles. He is the Editor of Nutrients, PlosOne, and J Clin Med. He has been a visiting professor at U Chiba, Japan, and U Cagliari, Italy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, UK. He has been Innolec laureate at Masaryk University, Czech Republic; awarded the Robert Naqué Prize by the Société de Physiologie (France); Nutrition & Food Excellence Prize by the National Academy of Medicine (France) and nominated as Ambassador for Research by the Burgundy State (France). He founded a start-up, “Ektah,” that obtained the iLab Prize (France).
Dr Khan has been Secretary General and is acting as Secretary for International Affairs at the Société de Physiologie (France). He is a founding member of the African Society of Physiology and Physiopathology, Senegal. He is an expert member in commissions like ATRBSA Algeria, National ANR France, InnovIris Belgium, and National Agency for Food Security (Anses) France. He has collaborated on obesity physiology with India, Morocco, Tunisia, Benin, Senegal, and Ivory Coast. We at Food Junkies are especially interested in his review of the literature on fat addiction.
