Patrick J. Stover, Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Institute for Nutritional Genomics (CING). He graduated from Saint Joseph’s University with a BS degree in Chemistry and was awarded the Molloy Chemistry Award at graduation. He received a PhD degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the Medical College of Virginia and performed his postdoctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Stover laboratory studies the biochemical, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie the relationships between folic acid and human pathologies including neural tube defects & other developmental anomalies, cardiovascular disease, cancers. Specific interests include the regulation of folate-mediated one-carbon metabolism and cellular methylation reactions, development of mouse models to elucidate mechanisms of folate-related pathologies, and translational control of gene expression by ferritin. In 1996 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. He received the ERL Stokstad Award in Nutritional Biochemistry from the American Society for Nutritional Sciences in 1999 and has been selected as an Outstanding Educator four times by Cornell Merrill Presidential Scholars.
Patrick Stover presented at the “Newer Paradigms In Vitamin B12 Research” conference in Lonavala, India in 2007, is working to establish formal relationships between Cornell University and institutions in India including the Public Health Foundation of India and the Tata Institute for Social Sciences.
