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Professor Ken Lee is the Food Safety Center Director at Ohio State. This
center advances the food safety mission by commercialization of food safety
technologies. Lee is a co-investigator with a six college Public Health
Preparedness initiative, a $4.7M Targeted Investment in Excellence by OSU.
Lee is a respected leader in the field of food science with 16 years experience as an academic department chair. He served on the Board of Directors and chaired several initiatives of the food science professional society, IFT. OSU selected Dr. Lee as a professional media contact, providing expertise on food safety for Fox News, CBS News This Morning and ABC News. He taught the first course at UW-Madison to be broadcast live on cable television. His experience in facility design includes a $4M addition to UW-Madison’s Babcock Hall and a $17.2M food science building at OSU. The latter featured a successful development campaign that raised $6M for facilities and an additional $6M for faculty and student initiatives. Dr. Lee provides leadership in food industry issues as past-president
of the Food Update Foundation, as Food Industries Center Interim Director.
Federal appointments included the FDA’s Food Advisory Committee, subcommittee on
food toxicants and contaminants and prior service to the NAS-NRC Doctoral Review
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