Henry Thompson

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About Henry Thompson

Henry J. Thompson, Ph.D, is professor in the College of Agricultural Sciences and director of the Cancer Prevention Laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. From 1988 to 2002 he was the head of the Center for Nutrition in the Prevention of Disease at AMC Cancer Research Center, Denver, Colorado. Before joining AMC, Thompson was on the faculty of the University of New Hampshire where he was professor of Animal and Nutritional Sciences and director of the Human Nutrition Center. He served as a senior research nutritionist at IIT Research Institute in Chicago, IL from 1977 to 1979. Dr. Thompson earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in nutritional sciences with an emphasis in biochemistry. His M.S, M.Phil. and B.S. degrees were also earned from Rutgers University. Following his doctoral work, Thompson received postdoctoral training in the Department of Molecular Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Thompson is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society for Nutritional Sciences.