Stan Kubow

Biography

Stan Kubow obtained his PhD in 1984 from University of Guelph after obtaining undergraduate and graduate degrees at McGill University and University of Toronto. He carried out postdoctoral studies at University of Guelph and University of Toronto from 1984-1987 prior to joining the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition at McGill University as an Assistant Professor in 1987. He has been an Associate Professor since 1993 and also served as Acting Director from 1993-1994. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Lipids, Nutrition and Medicine and Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism. He participates as a grant panel member of Tri-council funding agencies including Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He is recruited regularly by industry to support nutritional, toxicological, biochemical and phytochemical research investigations via grant and research contract support.

Research Interest

The major goal of Dr Kubow's research has been to promote human health by developing nutritional strategies to protect against the damaging effects of both external agents (drugs and environmental pollutants) and chronic disease pathologies. To achieve these advances, his laboratory instituted a variety of models to the study how the metabolism of nutrients, drugs and toxins affect disease outcomes (embryo and cell culture, simulated human gut digestion models and animal disease models). He has applied his laboratory-based findings towards nutrition intervention trials to show clinically important improvements in patient populations (chronic fatigue syndrome, cystic fibrosis, fibromyalgia, post-operative colon cancer recovery). Dr Kubow's studies also demonstrated the impact of dietary patterns on chronic disease risk and on the health risks from exposures to pollutants such as methylmercury in different populations (AIDS patients, Cree and Inuit aboriginal populations, obese and overweight children and adolescents). A common theme in his studies is assessment of how nutrients can protect against damage caused by disease processes and environmental toxins.