Principal Investigators

COEPHT is currently administered by co-interim directors, Dr. Chung W. Seo and Dr. Mohamed Ahmedna. Both have many years of experience in teaching and research in food science and post harvest technology. The Center will have four lead scientists from the areas of functional foods and product development, food safety/toxicology, microbiology or biotechnology and food engineering/processing. Each lead scientist will have a team composed of a junior scientist, a post doc, a technician and graduate students.

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