Adjunct Professor
Adelphi University
Debasis Bagchi, PhD, MACN, FRSM, CNS, FISNFF, CFFS, MAIChE, received his Ph.D. in
Medicinal Chemistry in 1982. He is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Pharmacy & Health
Sciences, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX; an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of
Biology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, and the Course Director of Neurotoxicology
(BIO 585); an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Psychology, Gordon F. Derner School of
Psychology, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, and the Course Co-Director of Integrative
Neuroscience Seminar (PIA395-001); and Chief Scientific Affairs, Cepham Research Center,
Somerset, NJ. Ex-Professor in the Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences
at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, Houston, TX. He served as the Chief
Scientific Officer at Cepham Inc, Belmont, NJ, from June 2013, till Dec 2018, and as the
Director of Scientific Affairs, VNI Inc., Bonita Springs, FL, from Jan 2019 to Jan 2023. He
served as the Senior Vice President of Research & Development of InterHealth Nutraceuticals
Inc, Benicia, CA, from 1998 till Feb 2011; Director of Innovation and Clinical Affairs, of Iovate
Health Sciences, Oakville, ON, till June 2013.
Dr. Bagchi received the Master of American College of Nutrition Award in October 2010;
became a Fellow of ISNFF in 2021 and awarded an overseas Fellow of Royal Society of
Medicine in 2022. He is the Past Chairman of International Society of Nutraceuticals and
Functional Foods (ISNFF), Past President of American College of Nutrition, Clearwater, FL, and
Past Chair of the Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Division of Institute of Food
Technologists (IFT), Chicago, IL. He is serving as a Distinguished Advisor on the Japanese
Institute for Health Food Standards (JIHFS), Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Bagchi is a Member of the Study
Section and Peer Review Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD.
Dr. Bagchi has 437 papers in peer reviewed journals, 46 books and 20 patents. Dr. Bagchi is also
a Member of the Society of Toxicology, Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Fellow
of the Nutrition Research Academy, and Member of the TCE stakeholder Committee of the
Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. Dr. Bagchi is the Associate Editors of the Journal of
Functional Foods, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and Archives of Medical and
Biomedical Research, and also serving as Editorial Board Member of numerous peer reviewed
journals, including Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Cancer Letters, Food & Nutrition Research,
Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, The Original Internist, and other peer reviewed journals