Michael Zemel

MICHAEL ZEMEL, PH.D., is a nutrition scientist who has authored or co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Zemel earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Physiology and Nutrition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing his doctorate in 1980. He served on the faculty at Wayne State University and as Research Endocrinologist at its affiliated VA Medical Center before joining the University of Tennessee as Professor of Nutrition and Medicine and Director of the Nutrition Institute from 1990 to 2012.

When not writing, Zemel serves as Chief Scientific Officer at both NuSirt Sciences, which he founded in 2007, and Kinexum, focusing on therapeutics for obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease.

Michael lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Michael Zemel’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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