Noriko Sato is a professor of nutrition and medical genome science in the Department of Food and Nutrition at Japan Women's University. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tokyo, and she trained in molecular biology and received a Ph.D. in medical science from the University of Tokyo. After working as a JSPS Research Fellow for her postdoctoral research and subsequent positions of assistant professor at Institute of Medical Science, the University of Tokyo, and a chief investigator at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, she served as an associate professor of the Department of Molecular Epidemiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. She is currently a professor at Japan Women's University. She is a genome and nutritional epidemiologist, and her current research interest is the establishment of precision nutrition for disease prevention.