{"id":422,"date":"2023-05-09T20:38:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T19:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/inform-innovation-hub\/?page_id=422"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T00:16:50","slug":"governance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/inform-innovation-hub\/about\/governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Steering Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Steering Committee will meet twice a year with a target of 20 members in attendance. The principal role of Steering Committee meetings will be to discuss themes of funding calls and to decide on the content for meetings and workshops whilst identifying individuals or companies who can lead in organising these events.<\/p>\n

We have consciously drawn on collaborators and colleagues from the geographical South and North to facilitate levelling up and advancing industrial collaboration throughout the UK.<\/p>\n

Minutes of meetings will be available online to INFORM Hub members.<\/p>\n

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Steering Committee Members:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to Dr Gemma Walton, Professor Kieran Tuohy, Dr Neil Williams, Dr Sue Gatenby, Dr Andrea Bertocco, Fiona Lee and Lorraine Bailey from INFORM’s core team<\/a>, the following academic\/industry-based individuals complete the Hub Steering Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fr<\/span>om Academia:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDr Phillip Allsopp<\/a><\/strong> – Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition, University of Ulster.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include the immunological impact of plant stanols and gut-bone health.
\nEmail:\u00a0 pjallsopp@ulster.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n


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\nDr Philip Burnet<\/a>\u00a0 – <\/b>Professor of Neuroscience, University of Oxford.\u00a0 Areas of Interest\/expertise include gut bacteria and brain function.
\nEmail:\u00a0 phil.burnet@psych.ox.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nDr Shauna Burke<\/a> –\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b>Associate Professor in Exercise and Health Psychology, University of Leeds.\u00a0 Areas of Interest\/expertise include sports and nutrition and health and psychology.\u00a0 Shauna is also co-lead\u00a0 of InterActiveUoL<\/a>,
\nEmail: Shauna.burke@leeds.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n


\nProfessor Helen Griffiths<\/a>\"\"<\/a> –\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b>Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Swansea University.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include Nutrients in health and ageing, mitochondria & energy metabolism.
\nEmail:\u00a0 h.r.griffiths@swansea.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\"\"<\/a>Professor Karen Birch<\/a> –\u00a0 <\/strong>Executive Dean & Processor Exercise Science, University of Leeds.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include Endothelial integrity, female reproductive hormones, exercise & CVD.
\n<\/span>Email:\u00a0 k.m.birch@leeds.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Dr James Kinross<\/strong><\/a> – Reader in Colorectal Surgery and Consultant Surgeon, Imperial College London.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise are the gut microbiome and colorectal cancer and how it may be engineered to improve operative outcomes. He James is a Co-I on the Horizon 2020 funded GROWTH consortium<\/a> studying how the microbiome influences anastomotic healing and surgical gut health and cofounded the International Cancer Microbiome Consortium.
\nEmail:\u00a0\u00a0j.kinross@imperial.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr Caroline Childs <\/strong><\/a>–\u00a0 Associate Professor, University of Southampton.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include diet and its links with immune function, inflammatory status, immunosenescence and the gut microbiome.
\n<\/span>Email:\u00a0 c.e.childs@soton.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Dr Mark Hopkins<\/strong><\/a> – Associate Professor in Nutritional Physiology, University of Leeds.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include the relationships between body composition, energy expenditure and appetite.\u00a0 The impact of exercise on appetite control, and the biological and behavioural compensatory mechanisms that resist diet and exercise-induced weight loss.
\nEmail:\u00a0 m.hopkins@leeds.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Professor Anne Kiltie<\/strong><\/a> –\u00a0 Friends of ANCHOL Clinical Chair in Oncology, University of Aberdeen.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include dietary fibre manipulation and impact on responses to radiotherapy;\u00a0 Dietary fibre and the gut microbiota via histone deacetylase inhibitors.
\n<\/span>Email:\u00a0 anne.kiltie@abdn.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr Emma Wightman<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0 Associate Professor, Northumbria University.\u00a0 Emma is the Manager of the interdisciplinary research group NUTRAN which draws upon the expertise of six disciplines; Brain, Sleep, Sport, Vascular, Biology and Omics.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include cognitive performance\u200b.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email:\u00a0 emma.l.wightman@northumbria.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Professor Susan Fairweather-Tait<\/strong><\/a> – Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia.\u00a0 Sue has served as chair and adviser on several national and international advisory committees.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include mineral metabolism and requirements in humans.
\nEmail:\u00a0 s.fairweather-tait@uea.ac.uk <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nProfessor Chris Gill<\/strong><\/a> –\u00a0 Professor of Digestive Health, University of Ulster.\u00a0 Chris is thematic leader for \u201cPhytochemicals and gut microflora in health and diseases<\/a>\u201d within the Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health (NICHE).\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include models of immune stimulatory effects of probiotics.
\nEmail:\u00a0 c.gill@ulster.ac.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


\nDr Jonathan Swann<\/a>\"\"<\/a> – <\/strong>Professor of Biomolecular Medicine, University of Southampton.\u00a0 Jonathan is on the editorial board for the journal Microbiome and sits on numerous expert panels relating to the gut microbiota.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include metabolomics.
\nEmail:\u00a0 j.swann@soton.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr Frederique Ponchel<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0 Associate Professor, University of Leeds.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include translational research in immune mediated inflammatory disease.
\nEmail:\u00a0 f.ponchel@leeds.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Dr Emilie Combet-Aspray<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0 Professor of Human Nutrition (Medicine), University of Glasgow.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include food, nutrition and the life cycle.
\nEmail:\u00a0 emilie.combetaspray@glasgow.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fr<\/span>om Industry<\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Dr Oliver<\/strong> Hasselwander<\/strong> –\u00a0 Scouting and Development Leader, Microbiome and Technical Fellow, International Flavours and Fragrances.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise; Oliver has had scientific and technical oversight and project leadership for several microbiome-related innovation projects.
\nEmail:\u00a0 oliver.hasselwander@iff.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Dr Thomas Hutton<\/strong> – Global Nutritional Leader, Cargill.\u00a0 Tom leads Gargill’s Global Nutrition Science team, where he overseas a team of experts focused on bringing nutritional science to Cargill’s food and feed product development efforts.
\nEmail:\u00a0 thomas_hutton@cargill.com<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\"\"Symone Pyle <\/strong>–\u00a0 Science and Technology Manager, Unilever.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include discovering how diet and biotics can unlock health and wellbeing benefits.
\nEmail:\u00a0 simone.pyle@unilever.com<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\"\"Dr Richard Day<\/strong> – VP Medical Affairs and Clinical Development, ADM.\u00a0 Richard is is responsible for the design and delivery of all clinical research across ADM’s Health & Wellness business, with a particular focus on microbiome solutions.
\nEmail:\u00a0 <\/span>richard.day@adm.com<\/a><\/p>\n


\n\"\"Jon Farrimond<\/strong> –\u00a0 Principle Scientist, Suntory Beverage and Food.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/experience include engineering and neuroscience.\u00a0 Jon has been developing and running in vitro and in vivo (human) studies for ten years with an excellent track record.
\nEmail:\u00a0 jonathan.farrimond@suntory.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nSonalika Jain\u00a0 –\u00a0 <\/strong>Research Partner, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL).\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include fuelling innovation and growth in Food R&D by building industry and academia relations, and leveraging external partnerships.
\nEmail:\u00a0 sonalika.jain@rssl.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nJessica van Harsselaar<\/strong> – Manager Nutrition Science, Beneo.\u00a0 Areas of interest\/expertise include food science with molecular biological focus.
\nEmail:\u00a0 jessica.vanHarselaar@beneo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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