Dominique Meynial-Denis, PhD, studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University Paul Sabatier of Toulouse, France and earned her PhD on intermolecular interactions between drug and plasma proteins followed by magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) at the same university in 1985. Since 1986, she worked as a scientist at the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) in Clermont-Ferrand in a Department focusing on Human Nutrition. Consequently, she became a Nutritionist and specialized her research on Sarcopenia and Aging in 1994. She applied MRS to metabolic pathways of amino acids in muscle during aging. Dr. Meynial-Denis earned a second PhD in 1998 on amino acid fluxes throughout skeletal muscle during aging. She was mainly interested in the effect of glutamine supplementation in advanced age. She was a member of the French Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition (SFNEP), of the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) and of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG). She was a regular reviewer for various international nutrition journals.