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Seychelles Child Development Study

Sean Strain, Ph.D.

After graduating with a BSc (Chemistry), BAgr (Agricultural Chemistry) and PhD (Nutritional Biochemistry), all from Queen’s University, Belfast, he spent several years (1977-1980) in academia in Australia before joining his current institution in 1981.  He was instrumental in creating the highly successful BSc Honours Human Nutrition and Dietetics and building up the Human Nutrition Research Group to its current position.  He is Professor of Human Nutrition (since 1994) in the Northern Ireland Centre for Food & Health (NICHE) and was part of the submission in Biomedical Sciences that was top rated (5* for research excellence) in the last two (1996, 2001) UK wide Research Assessment Exercises.  He has attracted over £31M in research grants and research structural monies and is an author of over 200 peer-reviewed research publications, mainly in the areas of trace element nutrition and in B vitamin and homocysteine metabolism.  In 2002, he was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.  He is a member of various national and international committees including: Member, Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies, and Chairman, Working Group on Claims, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Parma; Member of Board of Governors, Institute of Food Research, Norwich and Member of Board of Governors of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), Europe; MRC College of Experts; MRC Physiological Systems and Clinical Sciences Special Review Panel and has been: Member of Food Safety Promotions Board and Chair of its Scientific Advisory Committee; Member of Council of Scientific Advisors to the Children Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; Chairman of the Scientific Committee on Nutrition of the International Life Sciences Institute-Europe;  a member of SEERAD and MRC Visiting Groups; Treasurer of the Nutrition Society; Chairman of the Local Scientific Committee and Local Organising Committee of the highly successful International Conference, Trace Elements in Man and Animals (TEMA 12), which was held in Coleraine in June 2005 and attracted 250 delegates from 27 countries.

 

 

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