Professor, BIO5 Institute | Professor, Nutritional Sciences | Professor, Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences | Associate, Center for Toxicology | Professor, Cancer Biology - GIDP | Member of the Graduate Faculty
Dr. Romagnolo is Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and the Department of Cancer Biology at The University of Arizona. He is a member of the Arizona Cancer Center and the Toxicology Center, The BIO5 Institute for Collaborative Research, and the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center at The University of Arizona. He is currently a member of the Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences and the Cancer Biology Graduate Program. Dr. Romagnolo is the instructor for undergraduate Nutritional Biology NSC 408) and graduate Metabolic Integration NSC 602) Dr. Romagnolo earned a MS and a PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and a BS from The University of Padua, Padua. Italy. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Romagnolo is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Society for Nutrition, American Association of Cancer Research. He has published book chapters, monographs, and original research in cancer and nutrition scientific journals including Cancer Research, The Journal of Nutrition, Nutrition and Cancer, Breast Cancer Research, Molecular Carcinogenesis, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, Neoplasia, and Experimental Biology and Medicine. Dr. Romagnolo has co-edited a book on Bioactive Compounds and Cancer. Dr. Romagnolo has been a member of scientific review panels and received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, The US Department Breast Cancer Research Program, the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, and the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission. In his current position he promotes research that deals with the role of bioactive food components as epigenetic regulators of expression of genes involved in cancer and inflammation.