Dr. Janos Zempleni is Willa Cather Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Director of the Nebraska Obesity Prevention Center in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received a B.S. and a Ph.D. in nutrition science from the University of Giessen in Germany. Dr. Zempleni trained as a postdoctoral associate in the laboratories of Drs. Donald B. McCormick (Emory University School of Medicine) and Donald M. Mock (Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences). He has been continuously funded by NIH, NIFA/USDA, NSF, foundations (Bill & Melinda Gates, Gerber, SynGAP Research Fund) and industry for a total of more than $50 million in external funding since 2000. Dr. Zempleni has mentored more than 100 undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral associates and visiting scientists, published more than 130 research papers and delivered 200 invited seminars and meeting presentations in the United States, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Germany, Indonesia, Korea, Mexico, and New Zealand. He is listed among the top 2% of most heavily cited researchers worldwide. Dr. Zempleni has pioneered a new field of research by demonstrating that natural nanoparticles (exosomes) and their RNA cargos from milk are bioavailable and regulate genes and metabolism within and across species boundaries. He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences for his discoveries in the field of dietary exosomes and their RNA cargos.