About Robert “Bob” Ritter
Professor of physiology and neuroscience, in the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology and Physiology at Washington State University, Dr. Robert “Bob” Ritter earned doctorates in veterinary medicine and neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania. He came to WSU as the first faculty member hired for the Washington/Oregon/Idaho Program in Veterinary Medical Education. While his principal research focus has been on the control of food intake and body weight, he has contributed to research in other areas, including environmental factors that cause death among cattle. Dr. Ritter has been visiting professor of gastroenterology at London Hospital School of Medicine and visiting professor of cellular neuroscience at Flinders University College of Medicine in Australia. He has twice received Fogarty Senior International Research Fellowships, and from 1991 to 1998 he was a NIH Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator. His research on the control of food intake and body weight is funded by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke and by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. He is author of more than 100 full-length peer reviewed publications and he has written numerous articles and book chapters on food intake and innervation of the gastrointestinal tract.
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"Why Can't We Stop Eating? Rats Can Develop 'Immunity' to Fat." July 27, 1999
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