Jin-Rong Zhou is the Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Nutrition/Metabolism Laboratory at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The focus of his research is the study of the role that diet and nutrition may play in the prevention and treatment of certain types of cancer such as breast, prostate, pancreatic, and bladder cancers, and to investigate the mechanisms of action of active dietary and nutritional components. His important research strategies include the application of an integrated research system to evaluate the efficacies of dietary/nutritional regimens, to elucidate underlying cellular, molecular, and epigenetic mechanisms of actions, to identify novel anti-cancer components, and to define risk factors of cancer development and progression for designing effective nutritional regimens for cancer prevention.