From molecular mechanisms to public health: The role of nutrition and lifestyle in steatotic liver disease

Professor Bernadette Moore is a multidisciplinary Nutritional Scientist with broad interests in the molecular mechanisms underpinning the roles of dietary nutrients in health and disease. She joined the University of Liverpool in September 2024 as Chair in Nutritional Biochemistry.

Mentored by the eminent nutritional biochemist Prof. Robert J. Cousins, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida in the US for uncovering molecular mechanisms explaining the effects of zinc deficiency on the immune system. Awarded the prestigious Christine Mirzayan Science Policy Fellowship; after completing her PhD she worked at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC where her interests in science policy and the prevention of obesity were fostered.

After postdoctoral research, first as an intramural fellow at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland and then as a Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge fellow at NUI-Maynooth in Ireland, Bernadette moved to the UK to start her first laboratory at the University of Surrey in 2008, with her focus on steatotic liver disease. Alongside dietary and physical activity intervention trials in humans, much of her research has utilized genomic, proteomic, and systems biology tools, traditionally underemployed in the Nutritional Sciences. For this in 2018, Bernadette was the recipient of the Nutrition Society Silver Medal for Research Excellence.

In 2016 Bernadette moved to the University of Leeds where she held multiple leadership positions and was promoted to Professor. She has also held several external leadership positions and is currently a Trustee for the British Nutrition Foundation.

In this lecture, Bernadette will share her journey ‘on the road less travelled’ to Professor and Chair, and her insights on the often-contentious subject of nutrition and how to eat to prevent cardiometabolic disease.

A drinks reception will follow at the venue, after Bernadette’s lecture.

Registrations are closed

INAUGURAL LECTURE - PROFESSOR BERNADETTE MOORE