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Vimal Karani

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  • Programme Director for undergraduate nutrition degree programmes
  • Deputy Director, Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health (IFNH)
  • School Director of Postdoctoral Researchers
  • Module convenor for Lifestyle, Nutrigenetics and Personalised Nutrition (FB3LNP)
  • Module convenor for Lifestyle, Nutrigenetics and Personalised Nutrition (FBMLNP)
  • Library representative for the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences

Office

2-56

Building location

Harry Nursten

Areas of interest

Professor Karani鈥檚 primary research interests focus on the investigation of gene-nutrient interactions on metabolic- and cardiovascular disease- related outcomes using combined approaches genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics and molecular biology. His long-term goal is to use the findings from observational studies to carry out human intervention studies with a view towards developing industrial collaborations to facilitate 'Precision Nutrition'. He has initiated a large-scale collaborative project called GeNuIne (Gene-Nutrient Interactions) Collaboration that aims to implement precision nutrition approaches based on the evidence from nutrigenetics, multi-omics, gut health, epigenetics, and dietary intervention studies using cohorts from multiple ethnic groups (such as UK, India, Malaysia, Peru, Indonesia, Brazil, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Morocco, Turkey and Pakistan). His research projects focus on integrating the data from nutrigenetics, metabolomics, epigenetics, gut microbiomics, diet, lifestyle, and clinical, biochemical, and social parameters to predict the risk of cardiometabolic diseases using artificial intelligence based on machine learning algorithms.

Professor Karani is also a study coordinator of a large international collaboration (D-CarDia Collaboration), where he focusses on establishing the causal relationship between 25-hydroxyvitamin D and cardiovascular disease-related outcomes using Mendelian Randomization analysis in >155,000 individuals from the UK, US and Europe and the UK Biobank (N~500, 000).

Research centres and groups

  • Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition
  • Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research.

Background

Professor Vimal Karani is a Professor in Nutrigenetics & Nutrigenomics. He joined the 澳门六合彩开奖记录 after his post-doctoral training at the MRC Epidemiology unit (Cambridge, UK) and University College London (London, UK). He has also received advanced training in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Professor Karani has an interdisciplinary academic background, with qualifications from Molecular Genetics, Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology. He has published extensively in areas related to nutrigenetics and non-communicable diseases and presently has more than 120 peer reviewed publications (including those in premier biomedical journals: Nature Genetics, Lancet, BMJ, AJCN, PLoS Medicine and PLoS Genetics) and book chapters. He has received significant global media attention for his work on nutrition, lifestyle and cardiometabolic diseases. He has received funds as a PI and Co-I from various funding bodies such as the Medical Research Council (MRC), Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF), British Nutrition Foundation (BNF), British Heart Foundation (BHF), National Health and Medical Research Council (NH-MRC), The British Council, Newton Fund, Rank Prize Funds Nutrition Committee award and the Nutrition Society (NS).

Academic qualifications

  • PhD in Molecular Genetics
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP)
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Bioinformatics
  • MSc Biomedical Genetics.

Awards and honours

  • Won the for delivering a significant impact at the regional level and for showing significant value-creation to the education sector in Malaysia and the UK.
  • Won the  for his contribution to the world of global nutrition and for his research on "GeNuIne (Gene-Nutrient Interactions) Collaboration: Towards implementing multi-ethnic population-based nutrigenetic studies of obesity in lower middle-income countries".

Professional bodies/affiliations

  • Scientific Advisory Board member of the Scottish Government, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture (ENRA), Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Registered Nutritionist (AfN RNutr)

Websites/blogs

External activities

  • External Examiner for Nutrition degree programmes at the University of West London
  • Principal Investigator and Founder of the Gene-Nutrient Interactions (GeNuIne) Collaboration
  • Academia Ambassador for Food Matters Careers, UK
  • External reviewer of research outputs for Research Excellence Framework (REF)
  • Editorial Board member for the journals: Nutrition & Metabolism and Human Genetics

Publications

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