Professor Bernadette Moore

Profile

Professor Bernadette Moore is Professor of Nutritional Sciences and the Head of the Graduate School for the Faculty of Environment, which encompasses >500 postgraduate researchers. To date, she has raised over 2.9 million pounds in research funding and been supported by the: BBSRC, EPSRC, Children’s Liver Disease Foundation, and the Universities of Surrey and Leeds.  She has published >50 peer-reviewed papers, editorials and book chapters, and was the recipient of the 2018 Nutrition Society Silver Medal for Research Excellence in a Young Investigator.  Her recent work on the high sugar content of yogurts received significant international media interest, notably in the top 1% of >19.2 million Altmetric tracked publications.

Responsibilities

• Head of Graduate School, Faculty of Environment

Research interests

Research in Prof Moore’s group for the last ten years has been largely focused on the role of hepatic nutrient metabolism in healthy ageing, obesity and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). As recently reviewed in Professor Moore’s Silver Medal Lecture, NAFLD is now the most common cause of liver disease affecting an estimated 25-30% of adults and 10% of children worldwide. There are currently no effective pharmaceutical therapies for NAFLD but nutrition is a key modifiable risk factor and weight loss underpins clinical management.

Applying a variety of genomic, proteomic, and systems biology tools alongside nutritional intervention studies, Professor Moore's long-term vision is clinical and public health translation; ultimately addressing unmet needs for the discovery of diagnostic/prognostic biomarkers and the development of novel therapeutics. Her research employs a variety of genomic, proteomic, and systems biology tools alongside nutritional intervention studies. In addition to molecular experimental work, current active strands include clinical and public health nutrition aspects related to dietary assessment and the prevention and management of NAFLD and obesity in children and adults. 

Professor Moore welcomes discussions with highly motivated potential PhD students or postdoctoral fellows regarding research projects of mutual interest. She is very willing to mentor MSCFA, Wellcome, BBSRC Henry Dale, or other fellowship applications with an aim of fostering independent Fellows.

Qualifications

• BSc. Human Nutrition
• BSc. Chemical Sciences
• PhD. Nutritional Sciences
• FHEA Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Professional memberships

• The Nutrition Society
• Royal Society of Medicine
• Biochemical Society

Research groups and institutes

• Obesity, Cancer and Metabolic Disease
• Human Nutrition and Lifestyle Intervention
• Sustainable Food Systems

Current postgraduate researchers

• Zixuan Zhang
• Nahlah Alkhunain
• Cassandra Ellis
• Harriett Fuller
• Xiaoying Tian
• Aala Alfailakawi
• Mrs. Emtenan Jefrei
• Xiaomian Tan
• Priscilia Lianto

Projects

<li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/192-licamm-the-role-of-rab46-in-cardiovascular-disease">LICAMM The role of Rab46 in cardiovascular disease</a></li>