Tanja Kral

Tanja Kral, associate professor of nursing in the department of biobehavioral health sciences at Penn Nursing, has been chosen for the Alan N. Epstein Research Award from the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB).

The award recognizes an SSIB member whose work advances the understanding of ingestive behavior and who is less than 15 years from their most advanced degree. It is named in memory of Alan N. Epstein, a Penn professor of biology who pioneered the study of the neural and endocrine controls of ingestive behavior (Almanac January 14, 1992).

 “I am greatly humbled and honored to be receiving this prestigious award,” said Dr. Kral a nutrition scientist, “I would like to offer my sincerest gratitude to SSIB for this honor and for the recognition of my work on identifying behavioral phenotypes for childhood obesity.”