OUR EXPERTS

PROFESSOR 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.

Dr Philippa Jackson

Director of the Brain Performance and Nutrition Research Centre

Effects of bioactive lipids on brain function and behaviour (cognition, psychological state, stress, sleep)
Effects of nutrients and dietary supplements on cognitive performance
Nutritional support for sleep
Brain health across the lifespan
Individual differences in response to treatment

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

Professor Darren Smith

Dr Darren Smith

Professor of 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 Brownlee

Associate Professor in Biology, Food and Nutrition

Dietary assessment
Dietary quality and dietary patterns
Dietary fibre, whole grains and seaweeds on cardiovascular, metabolic and gastrointestinal health
Novel technology for nutrition and health assessment

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