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 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