Lorne J. Hofseth

Dr. Hofseth received his PhD from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada in 1996. After completing postdocs at Michigan State University and the National Cancer Institute, he joined the faculty in the College of Pharmacy, University of South Carolina in 2004. He is a professor, serve as the Director of the Center for Colon Cancer Research, and the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Pharmacy. He has published over 100 times, supports his program through multiple NIH awards, and has founded two companies centering around inflammation and health. His lab studies the ability of diet, complementary and alternative medicines, and drugs to suppress low-grade tissue-specific inflammation and global, systemic inflammation as a means of preventing colorectal cancer. His lab has recently focused our efforts on identifying dietary ingredients such as synthetic food dyes that are pro-inflammatory and pro-carcinogenic and how we can use this information to drive policy and individual change for a healthy outcome.