Gianluca Tognon is an Italian food scientist, researcher, public health expert, author and speaker. In 2017 he has founded the consulting company The Food Scientist, which is based in Sweden.
Education Gianluca Tognon has obtained a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Pavia in 2000. The title of his dissertation was Effects of the antitumor drug Paclitaxel on human colon cancer. In 2003 he has obtained a specialist degree in Pharmacological research from Regione Lombardia (Italy). In 2005 he has completed a Medical specialty degree in Food science and human nutrition at the University of Pavia. Tognon has also been rewarded with the titles of Advanced speaker and Advanced communicator by the American association Toastmasters Internationals.
Career Gianluca Tognon started his career in Italy, after the degree in biological sciences at the State University of Pavia. In 2000 he has been granted a fellowship in pharmacology research to work, from September 2000 to September 2003 at the Oncology Department of the “Mario Negri” pharmacological institute in Milan, where he contributed to the testing of two new anticancer drugs (Aplidine and ET-743) developed by the Spanish multinational company Pharma Mar. During 2004 and 2005 he has worked at the Department of Food Safety of the University of Milan, where he developed a new technique for mycotoxin identification based on the electronic nose. In November 2005 he joined the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute and worked as researcher in the Epidemiology unit where he worked within two EU projects: the Diogenes (Diet, obesity and genes) and the Idames (Innovative dietary assessment methods for epidemiological studies and public health). From April 2010 to March 2017 he worked at the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has published several scientific manuscripts on the association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and longevity as well as chronic disease risk in Swedish and Danish population studies. In addition, his research has also highlighted that milk intake is a risk factor for mortality, whereas cheese and fermented milk intake have the opposite association and he was invited to speak by Harvard university, the Italian multinational company Barilla SpA and European Medical Association. In 2017 Gianluca Tognon founded his own company called The Food Scientist.
Teaching Gianluca Tognon has also been active as trainer and university teacher. He has taught at the Master in Global health and at the Master of Public health at Gothenburg university (Sweden), at the Master in Human nutrition at the University of Pavia (Italy) and at the Master in Environmental Law at the University of Bergamo (Italy). He collaborates with the Department of health and education at Skövde Högskola. He has taught on a variety of topics, including:
Epidemiology, Statistics, SAS/SPSS, main areas: all-cause mortality and chronic disease. Nutritional epidemiology, dietary assessment, anthropometry (including body composition). Public health, main areas: obesity, malnutrition, diabetes and endocrine disruptors. Human nutrition (both children and adults), main areas nutrient biochemistry and clinical nutrition in relation to overweight, dyslipidaemia, diabetes, food allergy, gut problems.
Peer-reviewed original papers Tognon G, Rothenberg E, Petrolo M, Sund V, Lissner L. Dairy product intake and mortality in a cohort of 70 year-old Swedes: a contribution to the Nordic diet discussion. Under review at Eur J Nutr (last revision sent in July 2017). Tognon G, Nilsson LM, Shungin D, Lissner L, Jansson JH, Renström F, Wennberg M, Winkvist A, Johansson I. Nonfermented milk and other dairy products: associations with all-cause mortality. Am J Clin Nutr (2017) 105:1502-11. González Gil, Tognon G, Lissner L, Intemann T, Pala V, Galli C, Wolters M, Siani A, Veidebaum T, Michels N, Molnar D, Kaprio J, Kourides Y, Fraterman A, Iacoviello L, Picó C, Fernández-Alvira JM, Moreno Aznar LA; IDEFICS Consortium. Prospective associations between dietary patterns and high sensitivity C-reactive protein in European children: the IDEFICS study. Eur J Nutr (2017) doi: 10.1007/s00394-017-1419-x. [Epub ahead of print]. Gustavsson J, Mehlig K, Leander K, Berg C, Tognon G, Strandhagen E, Björck L, Rosengren A, Lissner L, Nyberg F. FTO gene variation, macronutrient intake and coronary heart disease risk: a gene-diet interaction analysis. Eur J Nutr (2016) 55:247-55. Mehlig K, Freyer E, Tognon G, Malmros V, Lissner L, Bosaeus I. Body composition by dualenergy X-ray spectrometry and bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy in a healthy population at age 75 and 80. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN (2015). 10:e26-e32. Tognon G, Malmros V, Freyer E, Bosaeus I, Mehlig K. Are segmental MF-BIA scales able to reliably assess fat mass and lean soft tissue in an elderly Swedish population? Exp Gerontol (2015) 72:239-43. Tognon G, Moreno LA, Mouratidou T, Veidebaum T, Molnár D, Russo P, Siani A, Akhandaf Y, Krogh V, Tornaritis M, Börnhorst C, Hebestreit A, Pigeot I, Lissner L. Adherence to a Mediterranean-like dietary pattern in children from eight European countries. The IDEFICS study. Int J Obes (2014) 38:S108–S114.
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