ProfessorLorraine Brennan

Lorraine Brennan is a full professor and a PI in the UCD Institute of Food & Health and Conway institute. She is the Vice Principal for Research, Innovation and Impact for the College of Health and Agricultural Sciences. She leads a research group at the forefront of the application of metabolomics in nutrition research and the development of Precision nutrition. She is an ERC awardee and is currently involved in three European Consortiums- Nutriome, PlantIntake and Promed-cog.

She served as Director of the European Nutrigenomics Organization for 5 years and led a number of important initiatives such as the development of an Early Career Network and expansion of membership of the organization. She is a member of the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine Standing Committee on Evidence Synthesis and Communications in Diet and Chronic Disease Relationships – advising the US NIH and USDA on future research areas of priority. She was a member of the Food2030 Expert group to advise the European Commission with the development of FOOD2030 and exploring and formulating possible future R&I policy recommendations and actions and assessing their potential impacts. Professor Brennan was co-author of the Policy Document “Recipe for change : an agenda for a climate-smart and sustainable food system for a healthy Europe: report of the FOOD 2030 expert group”. Professor is an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 

Website for research group: http://www.ucd.ie/nutrimarkers