Patrick Stover

Patrick J. Stover is a Professor of Biomedical Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Connecting Nutrition and Health (ICON-Health) at Florida State University. Previously, we was a distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at Texas A&M University, served as the founding Director of the Institute for Advancing Health through Agriculture at the Texas A&M University System; Vice Chancellor at the Texas A&M University System, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Director of Texas A&M AgriLife Research, and Director the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Saint Joseph’s University, a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from the Medical College of Virginia, and completed his postdoctoral studies in nutritional sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.

His research addresses the biochemical, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie the relationships between nutrition, food fortification and human pathologies such as developmental anomalies, neuropathies and cancer. His research group developed the only folic-acid responsive mouse model of neural tube defects resulting from disruption of a folate-requiring enzyme; the mouse model is also sensitized to folate-responsive cancers and neuropathies. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also former president of the American Society for Nutrition and has served two terms on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Food and Nutrition Board. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Clinton, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.