Scientists in the Food and Health Alliance (FAHA) on Norwich Research Park (NRP) work to understand the relationship between diet and human health. In particular they are responding to the increase in chronic diseases common to aging such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and the ‘metabolic syndrome’ associated with obesity. They have a special focus on the functioning of the GI tract and its microflora in healthy and diseased states. A new focus for this area on NRP is now set to be provided by the Quadram Institute (QI).
FAHA – Food and Health Alliance
The Norwich Research Park has over 50 food and health related research groups based within it’s partner institutions and its scientists have collaborated for a number of years under the Food and Health Alliance (FAHA). A new focus for this area set to be provided by the Quadram Institute (QI), a pioneering new facility for food and health research which is opening in 2018.
QI will bring together research teams from the Institute of Food Research with others from the UEA Norwich Medical School, as well a new NNUH regional gastrointestinal endoscopy centre and a state-of-the-art clinical research facility. QI will host interdisciplinary research at the frontier of where food, health and the microbiome studies combine. It will harness a pipeline of research from plants to foods to people to populations, delivering innovative new foods and novel therapies.
| Name | Affiliation | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Ball | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Mechanisms in oncogenesis, especially in urological cancers. The decline in the clinical post mortem examination |
| Yongping Bao | University of East Anglia | Understanding the mechanisms of isothiocyanates in cancer prevention, focussing on signalling pathways, cell cycle arrest, apoptosis and expression of chemoprotective enzymes |
| Naiara Beraza | Institute of Food Research | Hepatology, cholestatic liver diseases, SIRT1, bile acids |
| Mark Blyth | University of East Anglia | Modelling of GI tract |
| Simon Carding | Institute of Food Research | Mucosal immune system, dendritic cells (DC) and lipid metabolism |
| Aedin Cassidy | University of East Anglia | Polyphenols, nutrition, cardiovascular disease |
| Ian Clark | University of East Anglia | Molecular cell biologist, cartilage biology and osteoarthritis. Effect of diet derived phytochemicals |
| Mark Cooker | University of East Anglia | Mathematical modelling of GI tract |
| Colin Cooper | University of East Anglia | Prostate cancer, genomics and clinical studies |
| Claire Domoney | John Innes Centre | Genes and processes involved in determining seed quality traits in Pisum sativum L. (pea), proteins, sugars, starch and nutritional value |
| Dylan Edwards | University of East Anglia | Cancer : molecular biologist principally interested in the functions of the human “degradome” |
| Sue Fairweather-Tait | University of East Anglia | Nutrition, micronutrients, diet and ageing |
| Rob Field | John Innes Centre | Molecular basis of complex biological events, carbohydrates |
| Paul Finglas | Institute of Food Research | Development of the UK food composition database |
| Alastair Forbes | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Clinical nutrition, GI tract |
| Jelena Gavrilovic | University of East Anglia | Cell interactions in health and disease, emphasis on inflammation |
| Lindsay Hall | Institute of Food Research/University of East Anglia | Early life nutrition & microbiota |
| Andy Hart | University of East Anglia/Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Nutrition and GI tract diseases |
| Linda Harvey | University of East Anglia | Nutrition : microntrient requirements and metabolism |
| Brittany Hazard | Institute of Food Research/John Innes Centre | Nutrition : microntrient requirements and metabolism |
| Lee Hooper | University of East Anglia | Nutrition, research synthesis, meta-analysis, large clinical studies |
| Andy Jones | University of East Anglia | Metabolic syndrome – effect of environment on obesity |
| Nathalie Juge | Institute of Food Research | Molecular mechanisms underpinning gut bacteria-mucus interaction |
| Nohorito Kawasaki | Institute of Food Research | Food structure in the gastorintestinal tract |
| Rob Kingsley | Institute of Food Research | Variation in genotype and phenotype of food-borne bacterial pathogens and their host |
| Tamás Korcsmáros | Earlham Institute | Host-microbe interactions in the gut, regulation of autophagy by microbes, inflammatory bowel disease and cancer |
| Paul Kroon | Institute of Food Research | Intake, absorption, metabolism and health effects of dietary polyphenols |
| Mike Lewis | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Calcium signalling in GI tract. Oesophagogastric cancer and Barretts. Quality of life in cancer surgery |
| Alexander Macgregor | University of East Anglia | Genetic epidemiology ; Rheumatic disease epidemiology |
| Paul Malcolm | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Body and vascular MRI |
| Anne Marie Minihane | University of East Anglia | Nutrigenetics, n-3 fatty acids and inflammatory conditions, cardiovascular, brain |
| Cathie Martin | John Innes Centre | Plant foods for nutrition, anthocyanins, genetics |
| Richard Mithen | Institute of Food Research | Plant bioactives, glucosinolates, cancer, cardiovascular |
| Michael Muller | University of East Anglia/Institute of Food Research | Molecular Nutrition, Nutrigenomics |
| Arjan Narbad | Institute of Food Research | Microbial ecology of the gastrointestinal tract and the role of the complex gut microbiota in health and disease |
| Maria O’Connell | University of East Anglia | New therapeutic targets in the resolution of inflammation |
| Anne Osbourn | John Innes Centre | Plant-derived natural products – function, synthesis, and mechanisms of metabolic diversification |
| Mike Peck | Institute of Food Research | Basic and strategic aspects of the physiology and molecular biology of Clostridium botulinum |
| Carmen Pin | Institute of Food Research | |
| Gary Rowley | University of East Anglia | Molecular microbiologist, environmental regulation of enteric pathogens, Salmonella |
| Simon Rushbrook | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Hepatology – genetics |
| Mike Sampson | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Diabetes – clinical |
| John Saxton | University of East Anglia | Exercise physiology |
| Stephanie Schuller | University of East Anglia/Institute of Food Research | Infection & Immunity, E. coli |
| Andoni Toms | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | CT and MR of orthopaedic implants, dynamic carpal instability, physiological MR imaging of the gastrointestinal tract |
| Mark Tremelling | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | The genetics of inflammatory bowel disease |
| Jeremy Turner | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | The role of inflammatory signaling in adipose tissue in linking obesity to insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease |
| David Vauzour | University of East Anglia | Neurodegenerative disorders |
| Fred Warren | Institute of Food Research | |
| Alastair Watson | University of East Anglia | Gastroenterology, gut epithelium |
| Ailsa Welch | University of East Anglia | Nutrition and musculoskeletal health |
| Pete Wilde | Institute of Food Research | Food structure in the gastrointestinal tract |
| Mark Williams | University of East Anglia | Cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern the self-renewal and physiological function of the human intestinal epithelium |
| Andrew Wilson | University of East Anglia/Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Airways specialist – projects on nutrition and respiratory tract and inflammatory status |
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