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Project Scientist
USDA-Western Human Nutrition Research Center, UC Davis
Dr. Hampel is a Food Chemist and the Analytical Coordinator of the MILQ Study at the USDA/ARS Western Human Nutrition Research Center and the Department of Nutrition at the University of California Davis, CA. Her research has encompassed food chemistry, molecular biology, and nutrition, and included method development and studies on natural compounds with potential health benefits in each area. Within the field of nutrition, her focus is method development for nutrient analyses in human milk and plasma/red blood cells to assess micronutrient deficiencies in mostly low-and middle-income countries. Her extensive background in analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology provides a wide spectrum of analytical and bioanalytical tools for developing, evaluating, optimizing and validating methodological techniques.