Professor and Chair
Rutgers Dept. of Nutritional Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

jmiller@sebs.rutgers.edu, (848) 932-5428

Dr. Miller is Professor and Chair in the Rutgers Dept. of Nutritional Sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. He earned his doctorate in Nutrition at the Tufts University School of Nutrition in 1993 and then completed consecutive post-doctoral training experiences at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging in Boston and at Duke University. In 1997 he was recruited to a faculty position in the Dept. of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis. He came to Rutgers in the fall of 2012 and assumed his current position as Dept. Chair in July 2013. Dr. Miller’s research has focused on the relationships among vitamins (folate, B12, B6, D), homocysteine, and various conditions and disorders, including cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias; cancer; and more recently blood pressure. His research has also focused on interrelationships between genetic polymorphisms and vitamin B12, as well as novel strategies for assessing vitamin B12 status and absorption. He has extensive experience with inducing B vitamin deficiencies in rodent models, as well as measurement of various biomarkers of B vitamin status in both animals and humans, including large-scale epidemiological studies. He currently serves as co-investigator on an NIH-funded clinical trial to assess the effect of vitamin D supplements on cognitive decline in older adults (5R01AG051618-02; PI: John Olichney).