Ghada Soliman

She is also an affiliated faculty at the Structural Biology Initiative of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC). She received her medical degree from Cairo University in Egypt and earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Arizona in Tucson, with a major in nutritional biochemistry and a minor in immunology and microbiology. She was awarded a USDA postdoctoral fellowship at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center and was an NIH-T32 postdoctoral trainee in atherosclerosis and vascular biology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In addition, she completed her Dietetic Internship at the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers in Ann Arbor and is a licensed registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN). Dr. Soliman's research focuses on the role of nutritional and environmental exposome in promoting public health, improving disease prevention, and reducing the disease burden. Her research integrates wet-laboratory methods to study nutrient-sensing metabolic networks, such as the mechanistic Target of the Rapamycin (mTOR) complexes (mTORC1/mTORC2), to investigate the role of the nutritional exposome in metabolic diseases and cancer and to elucidate mechanistic pathways in cell culture. Her translational research investigates the non-genetic drivers of human diseases using a combination of methods, including high-resolution mass spectrometry and biochemical methods, genomics, predictive models, and machine-learning/AI tools. Her current research focuses on Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) health and uses the NIH-All of Us Database to identify factors contributing to the progression stages of CKM to facilitate disease prevention and develop interventions that reduce the disease burden. Dr. Soliman received research grant funding from the National Institute of Health NIH-K01 Career Development Award, the American Heart Association, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation, as well as institutional grants to support her independent and collaborative research. She published over 55 peer-reviewed papers in nutrition research and book chapters on nutrition, cholesterol metabolism, and causes of obesity. She is an associate editor for the journal Frontiers on Public Health and Nutrition, a guest editor for the journal Nutrients, and special issues and ad-hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. In addition, she is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Public Health Association, and the American Society for Nutrition, among others.