Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

Profile

Qualifications

BSc, MSc, PhD, PG Cert.Ed

Internal membership/posts

Member of Board of Studies
Member of Science Faculty Ethical Committee (since 2011)
Admissions Tutor (undergraduate Biomedical Science course, 2005-2010)
Course Leader and Admissions tutor for MSc Biomedicine (since 2008)
Unit Co-ordinator for undergraduate and post-graduate courses (Nutrition, Integrated pathology, Research methods, Project)

External memberships/posts

Consultant (until 2006): The Howard Foundation, Cambridge.
Visiting lecturer (until 2006): UK College of Health and Nutrition, London.
Member of the Nutrition Society (since 1993).
Associate member of the Institute of Biomedical Science (since 2003).
Regional Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine (until 2009).
Associate Editor of International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health.
Official Referee for: The British Journal of Nutrition, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Research interests and activities:

Mechanistic investigations into pathology of cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Diet and lifestyle intervention of cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

• Internal and external examiner for PhD thesis.
• Invited speaker at national and international Conferences.
• Grants held from The Wellcome Trust, H.J. Heinz Co. UK Ltd, EEC, MAFF Food Research, The Nuffield Foundation, The Howard Foundation.

Recent External Funding:

• £4,000 H.J. Heinz Co. UK (2012)

Recent Publications

More recent publications

Publications before 2006

Howard A, Chopra M, Thurnham DI, Strain JJ, Fuhrman B & Aviram M,  Red wine consumption and inhibition of LDL oxidation: what are the active components?,  Med. Hyp., 59, 101-104, 2002.

Olmedilla B, Granado F, Southon S, Wright AJA, Blanco I, Gil-Martinez, van den Berg H, Corridan B, Thurnham DI & Chopra M, A European multicentre, placebo-controlled intervention trial with alph-tocopherol, carotene-rich palm oil, lutein or lycopene: analysis of serum responses, Clin. Sci., 102, 447, 2002.

Wright AJA, Southon S, Chopra M, Meyer-Wenger A, Moser UK, Granado F, Olmedilla B,  Corridan B, Hininger I, Roussel A-M, van den Berg H & Thurnham DI,  Comparison of LDL fatty acid and carotenoid concentrations and oxidative resistance of low density lipoprotein in volunteers from countries with different rates of cardiovascular disease, Br J Nutr,  87, 21, 2002.

Morrow DMP, Fitzsimons PEE, Chopra M & McGlynn H, Dietary supplementation with the antipromotor Quercetin: its effects on matrix metalloproteinase gene regulation, Mut Res, 9189, 1-8, 2001.

Book Reviews

Improving the fat content of Foods by Christine Williams and Judith Buttriss. Br J Nutr 2006. The Cancer Clock by Missailidis Sotiris. John Wiley and Sons Ltd. 2007.