Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging - Tufts University

Lynne M. Ausman, D.Sc., R.D.

Lynne Ausman Scientist I
Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory
Nutrition and Cancer Biology Laboratory
Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
711 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111-1524
Phone: (617) 636-3712
Fax: (617) 636-3794
E-mail: lynne.ausman@tufts.edu
Education D.Sc., Nutrition
Harvard School of Public Health
Research Focus Dietary fat, cholesterol, fiber and coronary artery disease and colon cancer; nutritional primatology
Academic Appointments Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
Dean of Students, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University
Selected Professional Affiliations 1998-2001 Member, Research Committee, Institute of Food Technologists, Chicago, IL
1998-2001 Member, Committee on Animal Nutrition's Subcommittee on Nonhuman Primate Nutrition of the National Research Council, Board on Agriculture, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Recent Publications
Kennedy ET, Luo H, Ausman LM. Cost Implications of Alternative Sources of (n-3) Fatty Acid Consumption in the United States. J Nutr. 2012 Mar;142(3):605S-9S.

Matthan NR, Ip B, Resteghini N, Ausman LM, Lichtenstein AH. Long-term fatty acid stability in human serum cholesteryl ester, triglyceride, and phospholipid fractions. J Lipid Res. 2010 Sep;51(9):2826-32.

Vega-Lopez S, Matthan NR, Ausman LM, Harding SV, Rideout TC, Ai M, Otokozawa S, Freed A, Kuvin JT, Jones PJ, Schaefer EJ, Lichtenstein AH. Altering dietary lysine:arginine ratio has little effect on cardiovascular risk factors and vascular reactivity in moderately hypercholesterolemic adults. Atherosclerosis. 2010 Jun;210(2):555-62.

Wang Y, Ausman LM, Greenberg AS, Russell RM, Wang XD.Dietary lycopene and tomato extract supplementations inhibit nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-promoted hepatocarcinogenesis in rats. Int J Cancer. 2010 Apr 15;126(8):1788-96.

Urban LE, Dallal GE, Robinson LM, Ausman LM, Saltzman E, Roberts SB. The accuracy of stated energy contents of reduced-energy, commercially prepared foods. J Am Diet Assoc. 2010 Jan;110(1):116-23.

Vega-Lopez S, Matthan NR, Ausman LM, Ai M, Otokozawa S, Schaefer EJ, Lichtenstein AH. Substitution of vegetable oil for a partially-hydrogenated fat favorably alters cardiovascular disease risk factors in moderately hypercholesterolemic postmenopausal women. Atherosclerosis. 2009 Nov;207(1):208-12.

Altwaijri YA, Day RS, Harrist RB, Dwyer JT, Ausman LM, Labarthe DR.Sexual maturation affects diet-blood total cholesterol association in children: Project HeartBeat! Am J Prev Med. 2009 Jul;37(1 Suppl):S65-70.

Wang Y, Ausman LM, Greenberg AS, Russell RM, Wang XD. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis induced by a high-fat diet promotes diethylnitrosamine-initiated early hepatocarcinogenesis in rats. Int J Cancer. 2009 Feb 1;124(3):540-6.