Maura E. Walker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College
Health Sciences

PhD, Tufts University



Dr. Walker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and in the Section of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She serves as the Principal Investigator of the Quantitative Nutrition and Metabolism Lab and co-leads the cross-university Digital Health and Network Multi-Omics Lab.

As a transdisciplinary nutrition scientist, Dr. Walker has conducted extensive research across preclinical, clinical, and epidemiologic domains, examining the influence of diet on various biological systems, including transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and gut microbiota. In her role as a Junior Investigator with the Framingham Heart Study, her primary research focuses on using both traditional and systems-level epidemiological methods to deepen our understanding of how modifiable risk factors can alter the life-course progression of cardiometabolic diseases, with a particular emphasis on MASLD, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.

Dr. Walker earned her MS and PhD in Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition from the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, where she also conducted research at the USDA Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging. She teaches SAR 783 Metabolomic Regulation and SAR 785 Research in Clinical Nutrition for BU’s Masters of Science in Nutrition degree programs.

Research Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology

Investigator
Framingham Heart Study




Metabolic signatures of the MIND diet to objectively investigate with all cause and Alzheimer’s Disease dementia and PET imaging Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease
06/01/2024 - 05/31/2026 (Subcontract PI)
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio NIH NIA
1R03AG087437-01

Integrative omics approach to elucidate diet quality-blood pressure relations
07/01/2020 - 07/31/2024 (PI)
American Heart Association




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  1. Weinstein G, Kojis D, Banerjee A, Seshadri S, Walker M, Beiser AS. Ultra-processed food consumption and risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease: The Framingham Heart Study. J Prev Alzheimers Dis. 2025 Feb; 12(2):100042.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39863327
     
  2. Spartano NL, Sultana N, Lin H, Cheng H, Lu S, Fei D, Murabito JM, Walker ME, Wolpert HA, Steenkamp DW. Defining continuous glucose monitor time in range in a large community-based cohort without diabetes. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2024 Sep 11.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39257191; DOI: 10.1210/clinem/dgae626;
     
  3. Kim H, Chen J, Prescott B, Walker ME, Grams ME, Yu B, Vasan RS, Floyd JS, Sotoodehnia N, Smith NL, Arking DE, Coresh J, Rebholz CM. Plasma proteins associated with plant-based diets: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study and Framingham Heart Study (FHS). Clin Nutr. 2024 Aug; 43(8):1929-1940. PMID: 39018652; PMCID: PMC11342917; DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2024.07.005;
     
  4. Sun N, Prescott B, Ma J, Mohanty A, Long MT, Walker ME. Prevalence of Steatotic Liver Disease Subtypes and Association With Metabolic Risk Factors in the Framingham Heart Study. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2024 Nov; 22(11):2330-2333.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38857746
     
  5. Ravichandran S, Gajjar P, Walker ME, Prescott B, Tsao CW, Jha M, Rao P, Miller P, Larson MG, Vasan RS, Shah RV, Xanthakis V, Lewis GD, Nayor M. Life's Essential 8 Cardiovascular Health Score and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in the Community. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 May 07; 13(9):e032944.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38700001; PMCID: PMC11179926; DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.123.032944;
     
  6. Mi MY, Gajjar P, Walker ME, Miller P, Xanthakis V, Murthy VL, Larson MG, Vasan RS, Shah RV, Lewis GD, Nayor M. Association of healthy dietary patterns and cardiorespiratory fitness in the community. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2023 Oct 10; 30(14):1450-1461.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37164358; PMCID: PMC10562138; DOI: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwad113;
     
  7. Westerman KE, Walker ME, Gaynor SM, Wessel J, DiCorpo D, Ma J, Alonso A, Aslibekyan S, Baldridge AS, Bertoni AG, Biggs ML, Brody JA, Chen YI, Dupuis J, Goodarzi MO, Guo X, Hasbani NR, Heath A, Hidalgo B, Irvin MR, Johnson WC, Kalyani RR, Lange L, Lemaitre RN, Liu CT, Liu S, Moon JY, Nassir R, Pankow JS, Pettinger M, Raffield LM, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Selvin E, Senn MK, Shadyab AH, Smith AV, Smith NL, Steffen L, Talegakwar S, Taylor KD, de Vries PS, Wilson JG, Wood AC, Yanek LR, Yao J, Zheng Y, Boerwinkle E, Morrison AC, Fornage M, Russell TP, Psaty BM, Levy D, Heard-Costa NL, Ramachandran VS, Mathias RA, Arnett DK, Kaplan R, North KE, Correa A, Carson A, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Manson JE, Reiner AP, Kooperberg C, Florez JC, Meigs JB, Merino J, Tobias DK, Chen H, Manning AK. Investigating Gene-Diet Interactions Impacting the Association Between Macronutrient Intake and Glycemic Traits. Diabetes. 2023 May 01; 72(5):653-665.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36791419; PMCID: PMC10130485; DOI: 10.2337/db22-0851;
     
  8. Du S, Chen J, Kim H, Walker ME, Lichtenstein AH, Chatterjee N, Ganz P, Yu B, Vasan RS, Coresh J, Rebholz CM. Plasma Protein Biomarkers of Healthy Dietary Patterns: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study and the Framingham Heart Study. J Nutr. 2023 Jan; 153(1):34-46. PMID: 36913470; PMCID: PMC10196586; DOI: 10.1016/j.tjnut.2022.11.008;
     
  9. Gonzalez Izundegui D, Miller PE, Shah RV, Clish CB, Walker ME, Mitchell GF, Gerszten RE, Larson MG, Vasan RS, Nayor M. Response of circulating metabolites to an oral glucose challenge and risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality in the community. Cardiovasc Diabetol. 2022 Oct 15; 21(1):213.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36243866; PMCID: PMC9568897; DOI: 10.1186/s12933-022-01647-w;
     
  10. Walker ME, Spartano NL. Identifying Ultraprocessed Foods in Nutrition Research: What a Process! Neurology. 2022 Sep 06; 99(10):411-412.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36219799
     
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2019 Boston University: First Place Clinical Oral Presentation, Evans Department of Medicine Research Days
2018-2020 NHLBI: T32 Multidisciplinary Training Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology
2017 Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University : Gerald Cassidy Student Innovation Award
2016 Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University : Drs. Joan and Peter Cohn and Family Student Award
2015-2017 NHLBI: T32 Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Disorders Pre-doctoral Research Training Grant
2011 University of Maine: Presidential Scholar Award
2010 University of Maine: Academic Achievement Award
2009 University of Maine: College of Natural Sciences, Forestry & Agriculture Undergraduate Award

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