Dr. Chaodong Wu, MD, PhD, is a tenured Professor of Nutrition and Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University (TAMU), and Faculty Fellow and Senior Faculty Fellow of Texas A&M AgriLife Research. Since his appointment at TAMU, Dr. Wu has focused his research on elucidating roles of inflammation-metabolism interactions in unhealthy nutrition-associated insulin resistance and adipose tissue inflammation, as well as hepatic steatosis and liver inflammatory responses. To date, Dr. Wu has authored and co-authored over 129 peer-reviewed research articles (since 2001), including those published in Cell Metabolism, J Clin Invest, Circulation, Nat Communications, Hepatology, and Gastroenterology.