Meet the IHA team
World class researchers and scientific leaders of The Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture work in three synergistic areas of focus, precision nutrition, responsive agriculture and healthy living. Meet our team members below.
IHA Leadership
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Teresa A. Davis
Ph.D., DFASN, FASAS
Director
Teresa Ann Davis, Ph.D., D.F.A.S.N., F.A.S.A.S., is the Director of Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture, IHA, the world’s first research institute to bring together precision nutrition, responsive agriculture and behavioral research to reduce diet-related chronic disease…
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Arin Reeder
Assistant Director, Operations
Faculty Scientists
USDA-ARS Scientists
Research Staff
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Adil Khan, Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Research Specialist IV
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Operations Staff
IHA Members
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Beth Racine
Dr.P.H., R.D.
Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center at El Paso Center Director and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Associate Department Head for Nutrition Extension
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Brian King
Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head, Department of Hospitality, Hotel Management and Tourism
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Chaodong Wu
Ph.D.
Professor of Nutrition, Presidential Impact Fellow, and Texas A&M AgriLife Research Faculty Fellow
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Daniel Leskovar
Ph.D.
Professor and Center Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, Dallas and Uvalde
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Holli Leggette
Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications
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Hong Liang
Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. Professor; Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering and Multidisciplinary Engineering
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Jeff Tomberlin
Ph.D.
Professor, AgriLife Research Fellow, Presidential Impact Fellow and Director, National Science Foundation Center for Environmental Sustainability Through Insect Farming
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Kurt Zhang
Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nutrition; Director, Rigor and Reproducibility Core at Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences & Technology
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Luis Tedeschi
Ph.D.
Professor, Animal Nutrition; Texas A&M AgriLife Research Faculty Fellow; Chancellor EDGES Fellow
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Michael Polymenis
Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Programs, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
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Reza Ovissipour
Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Technology
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Robert Chapkin
Ph.D.
Allen Endowed Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention, Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, University Faculty Fellow, and NCI R35 Outstanding Investigator
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Srividhya “Sri” Iyer
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
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William L. Rooney
Ph.D.
Regents Professor, Borlaug-Monsanto Chair in International Crop Improvement, AgriLife Faculty Fellow, Sorghum Breeding & Genetics
Affiliate Members
- Srinivasulu Ale
- Giri Athrey
- Gurjinder Baath
- Muthukumar Bagavathiannan
- Fuller Bazer
- Salvatore Calabrese
- Oral Capps
- Rodolfo Cardoso
- John Cason
- Joydeep Chakraborty
- Jaehyun Cho
- Luis Cisneros-Zevallos
- Yuri Clements Daglia
- Jorge DaSilva
- Youjun Deng
- Senarath Dharmasena
- Xuejun Dong
- Kim Dooley
- Fugen Dou
- Steven E. Riechman
- Paul Feldman
- Sandun Fernando
- Delbert Gatlin
- Vishal Gohil
- Nuria Gomez-Casanovas
- Andy Herring
- Chris Hollenbeck
- Amir Ibrahim
- Tazim Jamal
- Jaehak Jeong
- Russell Jessup
- Vijay Joshi
- Eunsung Kan
- Mikhailo Kolomiets
- Holli Leggette
- Pingwei Li
- Zong Liu
- Shuyu Liu
- Xingmao Ma
- Kranthi Mandadi
- Grace Melo
- Jake Mowrer
- Genhua Niu
- Wesley Osburn
- Reza Ovissipour
- Devendra Pandeya
- Vlad Panin
- Sushil Paudyal
- Jean-Philippe Pellois
- George Perry
- James Petrick
- Ky Pohler
- Michael Polymenis
- Kiran R Gadhave
- Nithya Rajan
- Juliana Rangel
- Xudong Rao
- Keerti Rathore
- Waltram Ravelombola
- Jackie Rudd
- Stanley Samonte
- Michael Satterfield
- Endang Septiningsih
- Stephen B. Smith
- Gerald Smith
- Shyamal Talukder
- Lee Tarpley
- Luis Tedeschi
- Michael Thomson
- Gary Voelker
- Rosemary Walzem
- Xingguo Wang
- Aruna Weerasooriya
- Tryon Wickersham
- Jenny Wu
- Ximing Wu
- Guoyao Wu
- Linglin Xie
- Wenwei Xu
- Qingwu Xue
- Yvette Yu Zhang
- Azlan Zahid
- Lanying Zeng
- Ke Zhang
- Xiuren Zhang
- Shuyang Zhen
