For other persons named Charles Brenner, see Charles Brenner (disambiguation).Charles Brenner born October 30, 1961 is the Roy J.
Carver Chair of Biochemistry and a director of the Obesity Initiative at the University of Iowa.
He is a major contributor to work on nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide metabolism, who discovered the eukaryotic nicotinamide riboside (NR) kinase pathway.