Glen D. Lawrence
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Long Island University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Lawrence received an NSF Energy Related Postdoctoral Fellowship (1976-1977) to study synthetic models for photosystem reaction centers in photosynthesis at the University of Tubingen in West Germany. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Donald Sawyer at University of California, Riverside (1977-1979); a research fellow in the Department of Neurology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City (1980-1983); and a research fellow in the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University in New York City (1983-85). Dr. Lawrence also was a research consultant in the Department of Neurology at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons (1987-1989) and a science adviser in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s New York Regional Laboratories (1989-1992). He has spent sabbatical years in Tanzania (1992-1993), in the Philippines and Malaysia (1999-2000) and in Turkey (2006-2007). In addition to many publications in scientific journals, Dr. Lawrence is author of a book on dietary fats and health.
Research Interest
Dietary Fats and Health, Free Radicals and Reactive Oxygen Species in Biochemical Systems, Metal Nutrients and Toxic Metals, Bioanalytical Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry
Publications
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Determination of oxolinic acid in feeds and cultured fish using capillary electrophoresis, published in Food Chemistry
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Promotion by Phosphate of Fe(III)- and Cu(II)-catalyzed Autoxidation of Fructose,†published in Carbohydrate Research
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“The Fats of Life: Essential Fatty Acids in Health and Diseaseâ€
