About A. Catharine Ross
A. Catharine Ross was a nutritionist and university teacher.
Dr. A. Catharine Ross is the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair and a Professor of Nutrition and Physiology at Penn State University. She studies areas of nutritional science related to the vitamin A molecule.
Early life Ross attended the University of California, Davis and majored in zoology, graduating in 1970. She enrolled for one semester at the University of California, Berkeley, where she took an introductory course in nutrition from Doris Calloway which inspired her later career as a nutritionologist. She married Alex Ross, a photographer, in 1969. and how vitamin A factors into the immune response. Ross became a professor at Penn State University in 1997 and head of the nutritional sciences department in 2017.
Ross has authored or coauthored 290 publications and has an h-index of 26.
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