IIA Welcomes Dr. Perry Ng
| IIA is pleased to announce that Professor Perry Ng of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at MSU has joined the IIA faculty as part of his assigned responsibilities within FSHN. Professor Ng brings to MSU and IIA a wealth of international experience through his research in the area of cereal science, further described in the bio-sketch below. His role in IIA will be to coalesce faculty strengths and interests at MSU into new international research and training programs; his contributions will strengthen growing linkages between FSHN and IIA. |  Dr. Perry Ng |
Bio-sketch:
Prof. Ng was invited to join the faculty of Michigan State University (MSU) in 1992 to initiate a new Cereal Science Program in the Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition. His research foci are mainly in the areas of physicochemical and genetic properties of wheats (mainly of wheat flour proteins) in relation to end-use qualities, cereal (e.g., wheat, barley, rice, etc.) chemistry and technology, extrusion technology in cereal processing, and utilization of non-cereals (e.g., soybeans) for food and non-food products. Recently, his research activities have been extending to areas such as modifying certain components (e.g., resistant starch, fiber, phenolics) in grain with potential for functional food ingredients.
He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Cereal Science and Food Analysis. He has graduated 7 M.S. and 5 Ph.D. students from his program while at MSU. Furthermore, 33 post-doctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and visiting professors from 10 countries (Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Turkey, and the U.S.A.) have been trained in his laboratory over the years. He has been invited to many research centers (public and private) in Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North America to present his research findings.
Among his research activities, Dr. Ng currently has projects with scientists from his home department, other departments at Michigan State University, USDA-ARS Laboratories, US Wheat Marketing Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Kongju National University (Korea), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China), University of Guelph (Canada), University of Saskatchewan (Canada), University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (Vienna, Austria), Hacettepe University (Turkey), Istituto Sperimentale per la Cerealicoltura (Italy), and University of Milan (Italy). His cereal science expertise has been sought out by the food industry (in Canada, Japan, and the U.S.A.) for consultative purposes.
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