Catharine Ross received her undergraduate education at the University of California at Davis (zoology), and masters in nutrition and Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and postdoctoral training in the Department of Medicine, Columbia University. She is currently Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, having retired as Professor Emerita of Nutritional Sciences and Physiology, and occupant (emerita) of the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair from the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Ross has conducted research on vitamin A nutrition and metabolism and on nutrition and immune function for four decades. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Nutrition and as Sr. Editor for Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease (11 ed). She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society for Nutrition, member of the National Academy of Science (USA), and has served on the Food Advisory Committee of the FDA, Food and Nutrition Board of NASEM, and Board of Scientific Counselors for NIH NIDDK.