Life-long Health Theme: Leader Professor Paul Haggarty

Over the life course our nutritional needs change, and how we respond to different nutrients is also stage dependent. As a result we have discovered that our lifelong health is not only influenced by our early life nutrition, but in some cases by transgenerational effects of nutrition.

Natural Products - Professor Garry Duthie

Professor Garry Duthie - Plant products and disease prevention

Dr. Susan Duthie - DNA Damage and Repair

Dr. Frank Thies

Dr. Wendy Russell - Dietary Metabolites and Human Health

Dr. Vanessa Rungapamestry - Diet and immune function

Dr. Charles Bestwick - Identifying health factors in foods with a specific emphasis on phytochemicals and gut health.

Dr. Fiona Campbell - Identification of damaged protein markers for monitoring health

Dr. Denis Balcerzak (Honorary Research Fellow) - Matrix Metalloproteinases and control of smooth muscle cell phenotype

Micronutrients - Professor John Beattie

Professor John Beattie- Zinc and vascular health

Professor Harry McArdle - The effect of micronutrient intake and status in the mother on pregnancy outcome

Dr. Alan Sneddon - Selenium and fatty acids in health

Dr. Lorraine Gambling - The role of micronutrients in fetal & postnatal development

Dr. Christine Kennedy (nee Lang) - Understanding micronutrient interactions and absorption

Public Health Nutrition - Professor Geraldine McNeill

Professor Geraldine McNeill - Nutrition epidemiology and public health nutrition

Professor Paul Haggarty - Determinants of Lifelong Health

Dr. Diane Jackson - Energy Balance and Health

Dr Jennie Macdiarmid - Dietary intake and environmentally sustainable diets

Dr. Jacqueline Wallace - Nutrient supply, feto-placental growth and metabolism: implications for subseqent metabolic health