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Kim Jackson

Kim Jackson portrait
  • Designated Individual for the Human Tissue Act (2004) Licence in the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
  • Member of the University Research Ethics Committee

Office

2-11

Building location

Harry Nursten

Areas of interest

  • Impact of diet, in particular dietary fat composition, on cardiovascular disease.
  • Effects of meal fatty acids on triacylglycerol-rich lipoprotein metabolism and insulin resistance.
  • Influence of genotype on lipid metabolism and vascular function.
  • Acute effects of dietary fats and phytochemicals on vascular reactivity.
  • Development of mathematical models of postprandial lipoprotein metabolism.

Postgraduate supervision

  • Co-supervise five PhD students.

Research centres and groups

  • Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition
  • Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research
  • Institute for Nutrition, Food and Health

Academic qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey
  • PhD (Nutrition and Biochemistry), School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey.

Awards and honours

  • Silver Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) award for nutrition laboratories

Professional bodies/affiliations

Member of:

  • The Nutrition Society
  • Biochemical Society
  • European Atherosclerosis Society
  • American Society of Nutrition

External activities

  • Peer review of manuscripts for nutrition and diabetes journals
  • Associate Editor for Nutrition & Metabolism

Publications

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