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
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
