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Dianne FordPROFESSOR DIANNE FORD IS PRO VICE-CHANCELLOR FOR THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES AND DIRECTS NUTRAN AS PART OF HER VISION FOR GREATER MULTIDISCIPLINARY NUTRITION RESEARCH AT NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY. THIS GROUPING IS STEERED BY ESTEEMED ACADEMICS IN NUTRITION, NEUROCOGNITION, SLEEP, EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY AND GUT MICROBIOLOGY.

 

 

 

Professor David Kennedy

Director of the Brain Performance and Nutrition Research Centre

  • Vitamin, mineral and herbal supplementation on human cognition and mood
  • The use of in-house developed mobile phone delivery system for cognitive tasks; ‘Cognimapp’
  • The gut-brain axis; the relationship between foods/nutritional supplementation and how this facilitates cross-talk between the gut microbiota and brain function

Professor Glyn Howatson

Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Executive Dean, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences

  • Understanding fatigue / stress, recovery and adaptation to optimising human performance
  • Use of functional foods to manipulate physiological function for health and improved exercise capacity
  • Integrated applied physiology that use molecules-to-man approach to understand the brain to muscle interaction

Dr Jose Lara Gallegos

Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition

  • Lycopene and Tomato and risk of cardiovascular diseases
  • Relationship between sodium and hypertension
  • Dietary nitrite supplementation on blood pressure

 

 

 

Professor Jason Ellis

Director of the Northumbria Centre for Sleep Research (NCSR)

  • The causes and consequences of insomnia
  • The assessment, diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders
  • The mechanisms underpinning sleep and wakefulness

 

 

 

 

Dr Darren Smith

Associate Professor in Bacteriophage Biology within the Department of Applied Biology, Cellular and Molecular Sciences/Microbiology Group

  • Microbiome studies
  • Whole genome sequencing
  • RNA-Seq
  • Isoform sequencing and epigenetics

 

Dr Iain BrownleeDr Iain Brownlee

Associate Professor in Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation

  • Whole body and systems physiology
  • Dietary fibre, whole grains and seaweeds on cardiovascular, metabolic and gastrointestinal health
  • Novel technology for nutrition and health assessment

 

 

 


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