Dr Vera C. Mazurak is the Professor and the Director of the division of Human Nutrition at the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta. She received her PhD degree from the same department in the area of Nutrition and Metabolism. Her research program is focused on essential fatty acid metabolism in cancer patients, and is the only research program of its kind in Canada. This is a uniquely focused area to which she has made significant contributions.