Bruce Kristal

Past Secretary of The Metabolomics Society
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, and
Department of Surgery,
Harvard Medical School, USA
221 Longwood Ave, LM322B, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Tel: (617) 525-3280
Email: bruce.kristal@gmail.com

Bruce Kristal received his B.S. in Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 and his PhD from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Division of Medical Sciences, Committee on Virology in 1991. After being a post-doctoral fellow, instructor, and research assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (1991-1996), he joined the Dementia Research Service of Burke Medical Research Institute in 1996 and subsequently the Departments of Biochemistry (1997) and Neuroscience (1998) at Weill Medical College of Cornell University as an Assistant Professor (Associate Professor in 2004). He moved to Brigham and Women's Hospital in April 2007.

Dr. Kristal’s research has been recognized by grant/meeting awards from the National Institutes of Health, American Federation for Aging Research, Will Rogers Society, Oxygen Society, American Institute for Cancer Research, Gordon Research Conference, and the Hereditary Disease Foundation. Dr. Kristal is the first secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of the Metabolomics Society. He is a Contributing Editor for Science’s Science of Aging Knowledge Environment. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for NIH and other granting agencies.