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Chronic Diseases

Our objectives are to improve understanding of the biological processes that control chronic disease including inflammation, fibrosis and cellular nutrition; to develop improved methods of disease prevention, management and therapy through nutritional, medicinal and behavioural intervention; to advance understanding of behavioural processes that influence the development, management and self-management of chronic disease.

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Our key researchers and their research interests are summarised below:


Prof Clifford Baily
  • Diabetes
  • Obesity 
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Dr Srikanth Bellary
  • Epidemiology of Diabetes
  • Metabolic Regulation of Ageing
  • New therapies for Type 2 diabetes 
Prof Michael Coleman
  • Neurotoxicity & toxicity testing
  • Anti-tuberculosis drugs
  • Methaemoglobin formation
  • Diabetic complications
Prf Martin Griffin
  • Transglutaminases
  • Inflammation & Repair
Prof Helen R Griffiths
  • Free radicals
  • Inflammation
  • Ageing
  • Vascular Disease 
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Dr David R Poyner
  • Receptors for neuropeptides
  • Calcitonin gene-related peptide
  • Adrenomedullin  
Dr Corinne Spickett
  • Oxidized and Chlorinated Phospholipids
  • Novel MS methodology for detecting protein oxidation
  • Effects of oxychloro compounds on cells
Prof Michael J Tisdale
  • Cancer Cachexia
  • Type 2 diabetes and obesity