After postdoctoral work at the
University of Toronto, Drewnowski became an assistant professor at Rockefeller University, then a professor of public health and Director of the Program in Human Nutrition at the School of Public Health at the
University of Michigan. While there he researched a possible drug to block cravings for
chocolate, since these cravings usually precipitate eating binges. He joined the University of Washington in 1998. He has also studied the relationship between poverty and being more likely to become obese, and the relationship between the per-calorie price of food and the amount of key nutrients they contain. ==Awards==