Staff Profile:Professor Ian Rowland

Name:

Professor Ian Rowland

Job Title:

Director of Research, Head of the Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition

Responsibilities:

Head ofthe Hugh Sinclair Human Nutrition Unit

Areas of Interest:

Diet and cancer, anti-cancer components of plants, health benefits of probiotics and prebiotics, functional foods, health claims

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Gill CIR,Haldar S, Boyd A,Bennett R, Whitefield J, Butler M,Pearson J, Bradbury I, Rowland I. (2007). Watercress supplementation in diet reduces lymphocyteDNA damage and alters blood antioxidant status in healthy volunteers. Am J Clin Nutr 85:504-510

Rafter J,Bennett M, Caderni G, Clune Y, Hughes R, Karlsson PC, Klinder A,O'Riordan M, O' Sullivan G, Pool-Zobel B, Rechkemmer G, Roller M, Rowland I,Salvadori M, Thijs H, Van Loo J, Watzl B and Collins JK (2007) Dietary synbiotics reduce cancer risk factors in polypectomised and colon cancer patients Am J Clin Nutr 85:488-96

McCann MJ,Gill CIR, Rao JR, McRoberts, WC, Hughes P,McEntee R and Rowland IR. 2007Anti-cancer properties of phenolics from apple cider waste on colon carcinogenesis in vitro Food Chem Toxicol45: 1224-1230

Fässler C,Gill CIR, Arrigoni E, Rowland I,Amadò R (2007) Fermentation of resistant starches: influence of in vitro models on colon carcinogenesis. Nutr Cancer 58(1):85-92

Haldar S, Rowland IR, Barnett YA, Bradbury I , Robson A,Powell A and Fletcher J

Influence of habitual diet on antioxidant status: a study in a population of vegetarians and omnivores. Eur J Clin Nutr (2007) 61(8):1011-22.

Qualifications:

BSc, PhD, R Nutr.

Research awards

MRC/Dorothy Hodgkinpostgraduate award

EU Marie Curie Training Site. Assessment of dietary components with health promoting properties

Hon Doctorate University of Gent