Professor Graham Burdge
Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
University of Southampton, UK
Member, Science Advisory Council, Think Through Nutrition, UK
About
Professor Graham Burdge is Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. He has over 20 years’ experience of research into the impact of nutrition on health-related outcomes. Since 2008, his work has attracted over £7M in funding from industry, research councils, the EU and charities.
Graham graduated in Cell and Immunobiology from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1985 and was awarded a PhD from the Department of Medical Oncology, University of Southampton in 1990.
In 1987 he joined the Department of Child Health at the University of Southampton to study pulmonary surfactant biosynthesis and phospholipid metabolism. Graham then moved to the Institute of Human Nutrition, University of Southampton, where he carried out research on polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism in humans. He was appointed Lecturer in Human Nutrition (2007) and Reader in Human Nutrition (2009).
He is a founding member of an international research consortium on epigenetics and the developmental origins of disease, EpiGen, composed of the University of Southampton, the Medical Research Council, AgResearch New Zealand, the University of Auckland, and the Singapore Institute of Clinical Sciences.
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British Heart Foundation Intermediate Fellowship (2006)
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Editor-in-Chief, British Journal of Nutrition
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Nutritional Science
Member , Grant Committee A, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Member, Research Grant Panel, World Cancer Research Fund International
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• Understanding the regulation, particularly through epigenetic processes, of polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism in health and disease
• The use of novel food ingredients to improve omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid intakes
• Understanding how fatty acids modify epigenetic processes
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For a full list of publications, visit the University of Southampton.