Levi Teigen, PhD, RD is an Assistant Professor in Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota. He is also a faculty member of the Microbiota Therapeutics Program and an adjunct faculty member with the Department of Medicine-Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota. With over a decade of experience as a clinical dietitian, the primary mission of the Teigen lab is to advance the paradigm of medical nutrition therapy to improve patient care and outcomes. His research involves both: 1) use of body composition technologies to improve nutrition assessment and 2) analysis of gut microbiota structure and function and the potential role of diet to modulate this. His long-term goal is to exploit his unique clinical and research background to link effects of diet on microbiota functionality to develop evidence-based precision nutrition strategies.
