INTRODUCTION
We undertake research to determine the optimum nutrition for health and the prevention of disease. We aim to provide evidence-based nutrition information to enable Government to formulate robust nutritional advice. In addition, our research enables agriculture and agri-food industries to improve food quality based on nutritional benefit as well as on the basis of taste.
Our research is focused on:
• developing an understanding of the biological activity of specific nutrients at a cellular level
• the identification and development of biomarkers to aid in the detection and prevention of diet-related diseases
• understanding the basis of individual differences in responses to diet.
This work is underpinned by state of the art platform technologies such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics.
Click here to view some of our recently published papers.
View research briefing notes here - These notes summarise key areas of our research programme, highlighting the problems the research is addressing and the potential outcomes of the research.
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