July 2023

Jan Frederik (‘Fred’) Stevens earned his M.S. in pharmacy (1988), Pharm.D. (1990), and Ph.D. in medicinal chemistry (1995) from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He received postdoctoral training at Oregon State University (1995-1999), the Free University of Amsterdam (1999-2000), and the Leibniz Institute for Plant Biochemistry, Halle/Saale, Germany (2000-2002). In 2002, he joined the faculty at Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, where he holds positions as Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Pharmacy. He has authored more than 174 articles in peer-review journals (Web of Science h-index 47; Google Scholar h-index 54). He received five awards for excellence in teaching at the OSU College of Pharmacy. He holds a guest professorship at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he teaches a course on medicinal natural products. He serves on the Executive Editorial Board of Molecular Nutrition & Food Research and has served the Phytochemical Society of North America as President (2013-2014). In 2022, he accepted the role of President of the World Polyphenols Congress. His research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Agriculture, aims to determine the role and function of dietary phytochemicals in human health and disease. More than 90 postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students, visiting scholars, and foreign exchange students received research training in the Stevens Laboratory. Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics is a major research tool in his laboratory for the discovery of biological effects of vitamins and phytochemicals in cultured cells, animal models of disease, and in humans.