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Dr Janice Drew

Janice Drew

Current Post: Senior Research Fellow, Molecular Nutrition Group (Gut Health Division), Rowett Research Institute of Nutrition and Health, Aberdeen University, Scotland.

Research Interests: Investigating links between nutrition and gut health and obesity related cancers. Focus on systems biology approach incorporating genomics, proteomics and biochemical analyses in rodent models, in vitro and ex vivo cell culture systems, human intervention studies and cancer patients.

Recent Publications:

1.        Drew JE Obesity cancer links – Overview The Open Obesity. Editorial Journal Guest Supplement Obesity Cancer Links (In press).

2.       Padidar S, Farquarson AJ, Hoggard N, Williams LM, Drew JE (2009) Links between obesity and colon cancer: Identification of novel leptin regulated genes. Gastroenterology DDW 2009 Supplement (In press).

3.       Padidar S, Farquharson AJ,Rucklidge GJ, Drew, JE (2008) Influence of increased adiposity on mitochondrial-associated proteins of the rat colon: a proteomic and transcriptomic analysis. Biochimica et Biophys Acta – Molecular Basis of Disease. 1782:532-41.

4.       Russell WR, Scobbie L, Chesson A, Richardson AJ, Stewart CS, Duncan SH, Drew JE Duthie GG (2008) Anti-inflammatory implications of the microbial transformation of dietary phenolic compounds. Nutrition and Cancer 60:636-42.

6.        Padidar S, Bestwick CS, King T, Rucklidge GJ, Drew, JE (2008) Profiling of mitochondrial associated proteins from rat colon. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 103:78-97.

7.        Drew JE Farquharson AJ, Padidar S, Duthie GG, Mercer JG, Arthur JR,MorricePC, Barrera LN. (2007) Insulin, leptin and adiponectin receptors in colon: regulation relative to differing body adiposity independent of diet and in response to dimethylhydrazine. Amer J Physiol – GI Liver 293:G682-91.

Recent Presentations:

Cancer Medicine Research seminar "Molecular signalling, diet and cancer". Institute of Medical Sciences, Aberdeen, 19th November 2009.

Rowett Research Institute Gut Division seminar, Aberdeen, 11^th Nov. 2008 "Development of a human gut mucosal challenge model?"

European Centre for Validation of Alternative Methods, Joint Research Centre Institute for Health and Consumer Protection. "Development of a human gut mucosal challenge model". Ispra, Italy 2^nd September, 2008.

 LASA Winter meeting. Further development of a colon explant culture system to replace use of rodents to study colon pathologies.Scotland, 19^th-21^st July, 2008.

 Royal Society of Medicine Food and Health Forum Does the modern diet cause cancer? "Dietary salicylates: nutri'omic approaches to investigate impact on gut health", Royal Society of Medicine, London 26^th March, 2008.

 NuGO – Workshop Nutrition and molecular mechanisms related to angiogenesis in adipogenesis. "Adipokines, inflammatory cytokines, angiogenesis and colon cancer" Collegium Nowodworski Hall, Krakow, Poland 18-19^th Oct, 2007.

COST Action FA0602 Bioactive food components, mitochondria and health. "Mitochondrial health: an issue for gut health in the obesogenic environment?"

INSERM, Bordeaux, France 1-2^nd October, 2007.

Membership of Editorial Boards:

The Open Obesity Journal

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society.

 Guest Editor The Open Obesity Journal Supplement "Obesity Cancer Links" (In Press)