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Professor Andrew Prentice: Head of the MRC International Nutrition Research Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and MRC Keneba, MRC Unit, The Gambia 
Thursday 05 March 2015, 18:00-19:00
Bush, Bench and Bedside: Nutrition Research in Rural Gambia (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Andrew Prentice: Head of the MRC International Nutrition Research Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and MRC Keneba, MRC Unit, The Gambia đ Website
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 05 March 2015, 18:00 - 19:00
- đ Venue: Wine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST
Abstract
The Medical Research Council has funded an extraordinary research centre deep in the Gambian bush for almost 70 years (see www.ing.mrc.ac.uk). This is now a vibrant fieldstation that attempts to bring cutting edge science to some of the long-unanswered challenges in maternal and child health in low-income settings. To achieve this we need to collaborate with world leaders in Cambridge and beyond. My seminar will describe some of the outstanding diet-disease challenges in a global health context and use short vignettes on epigenetics and the iron-hepcidin-infection axis to show how we are trying to harness state-of-the-art methodologies to build a much stronger evidence base on which to design next-generation interventions.
Series This talk is part of the Cambridge-Africa Programme series.
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