Ahmed Bettaieb received his BS in reproductive biology from the Faculty of Center, Monastir, Tunisia in 2001, and an MS and a Ph.D. in cancer from the University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Canada in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He finished his postdoctoral study of obesity, diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases at the University of California-Davis, Davis, CA in 2011. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Nutrition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests mainly focus on genetics, nutrition, metabolism and cardiovascular diseases.