Valerolactones and healthy Ageing: LInking Dietary factors, nutrient biomarkers, metabolic status and inflammation with cognition in older adults.
Exciting preliminary findings from the VALID study looking at the validity of plasma phenyl-γ-valerolactones as novel biomarkers of dietary polyphenols were presented by 1st year PhD student Ben at the recent Irish Section Nutrition Society Summer Meeting in Ulster University Read More …
Congratulations to the VALID research associate Katie Moore who recently passed her PhD viva on B-vitamins and the Ageing Brain. Special thanks to her external examiner Dr Tom Hill from Newcastle University, internal examiner Prof Chris Mitchell and Chair Prof Read More …
Results from the TUDA study have shown that older people who live in disadvantaged areas have a greater risk of developing cognitive impairment (an early risk factor for dementia) than people in better off areas. The findings of this study, published in Read More …
Some of the VALID project team from Ulster University and Trinity College Dublin recently took advantage of attending the Nutrition Society Irish Section Postgraduate meeting at Queens University Belfast and met to discuss the Read More …