Nu Skin Appoints New Scientific Advisor

Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc.tapped Stuart Kim, Ph.D., professor at Stanford University in the departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics, as its newest member of the Nu Skin Anti-Aging Scientific Advisory Board. According to the company, Dr. Kim will provide insights on the molecular analysis of aging science.

“We are honored to welcome Dr. Kim to the Nu Skin Anti-Aging Scientific Advisory Board and believe that our collaboration with him will increase our scientific efforts to target the sources of aging,” said Joseph Chang, Ph.D., Nu Skin chief scientific officer and executive vice president of product development. “Dr. Kim has spent much of his career studying the genetic basis of aging and has garnered significant attention in the scientific community related to his identification of an important gene that could play a critical role in aging. This important work will add to the further understanding of the molecular mechanism by which certain proteins regulate aging.”

Kim received bachelors’ degrees in chemistry and philosophy from Dartmouth College in 1979. He then moved to biology at Caltech and received a doctorate in 1984. He spent five years as a post-doctoral fellow at MIT and is currently a professor in the departments of Developmental Biology and Genetics at Stanford University, as well as a faculty affiliate to the Stanford Center on Longevity.

Kim’s recent research interests have focused on functional genomics and systems biology. He has been a Markey Scholar, a Searle Scholar and an Ellison Scholar for his research on the genetics of aging.