Dr. Yasmeen Nkrumah-Elie is the Senior Director and head of the international, award-winning ChromaDex External Research Program (CERP TM ), advancing the science of NAD+ and nicotinamide riboside (NR) in over 30 countries. CERP manages a portfolio of over 300 investigator-driven, third-party funded preclinical and clinical studies, primarily comprised of researchers exploring NAD+ in health and disease. Through CERP, Dr. Nkrumah-Elie and her team also design and manage sponsored scientific research studies through various CROs and academic partnerships. Dr. Nkrumah-Elie’s scientific expertise includes molecular nutrition, cellular health, toxicology, clinical study design and healthy aging. She received her BS in Biological and Agricultural Engineering and her PhD in pharmaceutical sciences, specializing in toxicology, from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Her research identified preclinical mechanisms for the prevention of the onset of cancer using garlic compounds.

She obtained postdoctoral training in toxicology, nutrition, and metabolomics from Oregon State University and the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, leading preclinical and clinical projects focused on zinc, arsenic, pediatric asthma, health disparities, and foodomics.

Dr. Nkrumah-Elie is currently a member of The American Society for Nutrition (IDEAS Committee and Sustaining Partners), the Senior Scientific Advisory Council for the Council for Responsible Nutrition, Women in Nutraceuticals (WIN, past chair of the Scientific Conferences Subcommittee and the WIN Mentorship Committee), and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. Most recently, she became a founding board member for the nonprofit, My Health Reimagined which produces the podcast, Thrive. In 2024, Dr. Nkrumah-Elie became the first recipient of the Council for Responsible Nutrition & Radicle Science Woman Trailblazer Award. She also received the Nutrition for Life Award at the Ultimate Wellness conference from Lifespanning Magazine. She is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, where she was initiated into the Beta Alpha Chapter at FAMU in 2000, and is now active in the Denver Alumnae Chapter. She has been featured in Forbes, LA Times Studio, NutraIngredients, Fast Company, and Lifespanning (formerly Biohackers) Magazine.

But above all of this she is a wife, mother, daughter, sister, cousin, and friend.