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SUMMARY:Bush\, Bench and Bedside: Nutrition Research in Rural Gambia (King
 's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar) - 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
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CONTACT:Dr Pauline Essah
DESCRIPTION:The Medical Research Council has funded an extraordinary resea
 rch centre deep in the Gambian bush for almost 70 years (see www.ing.mrc.a
 c.uk). This is now a vibrant fieldstation that attempts to bring cutting e
 dge science to some of the long-unanswered challenges in maternal and chil
 d health in low-income settings. To achieve this we need to collaborate wi
 th world leaders in Cambridge and beyond. My seminar will describe some of
  the outstanding diet-disease challenges in a global health context and us
 e short vignettes on epigenetics and the iron-hepcidin-infection axis to s
 how how we are trying to harness state-of-the-art methodologies to build a
  much stronger evidence base on which to design next-generation interventi
 ons.
LOCATION:Wine Room\, King's College\, Cambridge\, CB2 1ST
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