Probiotics and Prebiotics

Arthur C Ouwehand received his B.Sc. in biology and chemistry in Utrecht (the Netherlands) 1987, his M.Sc. degree (1992) in cell biology from Wageningen University (the Netherlands) and his Ph.D. degree (1996) in microbiology from Göteborg University (Sweden). Since 1999 he is Adjunct Professor in Applied Microbiology at the Turku University (Finland) and since 2004 he has been working for Danisco; now DuPont Nutrition and Health. He is the author of more than 250 journal articles and book chapters; he is the editor of four books on lactic acid bacteria and the intestinal microbiota and co-inventor on 15 approved patents.