Science Advisors
SAT - Scientific Advisory TeamThe KDD Scientific Advisory Team (SAT) was commissioned in 2020 by Sir Mohammad Jaafar, Chairman and CEO, Kuwaiti Danish Dairy Company (KDD) to inform and empower the development of best in class (nourishing, delicious, affordable, commercially viable) food and beverages that support metabolic well-being. The SAT is comprised of leading experts in the fields of metabolic health and nutrition, medicine, research, food data science, public health education, and consumer advocacy.
Efforts of this team were featured on the United Nations Food System Summits Dialogues website: https://summitdialogues.org/dialogue/36661/. The KDD SAT has written and published a peer review methods paper in Frontiers in Nutrition: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1098453/full.
An abstract of the methods paper, a poster, and an academic presentation were featured at an international symposium on metabolic health and nutrition in June of 2022: https://www.swedish.org/for-health-professionals/cme/conferences/metabolic-health.
Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL
SAT Chair
Pediatric Neuroendocrinologist, Clinician/Researcher, Global Leader in Metabolic Health, best-selling author of Fat Chance, Hacking of the American Mind, and Metabolical.
Rachel Gow, PhD
Nutritional Neuroscientist, Neuropsychologist and Neurodevelopmental specialist with expertise in a range of mental health conditions and associative learning and behaviour differences. In addition, Dr Gow is a Registered Nutritionist and author.
Timothy S. Harlan, MD, FACP, CCMS
Practicing, board-certified Internist, Associate Professor of Medicine at George Washington University, Director of the GW Culinary Medicine Program, award winning chef, and author.
Andreas Kornstaedt, PhD
Founder/CEO, Perfact Corporation. Andreas Kornstaedt holds a Ph.D. in informatics from Hamburg University. He is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Venture Studio and for 5 years carried out research at Stanford University’s Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities.
Wolfram Alderson, MSc
Executive Manager, Research & Innovation, KDD, leader in the field of metabolic health and nutrition, CEO Hypoglycemia Support Foundation, Founder and CEO of the Robert H. Lustig Research Foundation, and Co-Founder, Perfect Corporation.
Wilbert Sybesma, PhD, MSc, MBA
Contributor to the development, and commercialization of numerous innovations related to human nutrition and health and co-inventor on numerous patents. Co-Founder of Yoba for Life Foundation and contributor to more than 60 peer reviewed publications and opinion papers.