PhD in Nutrition | Fully-funded

📣 NEW PhD in Nutrition position available! 📣

Join my team on an MRC Doctoral project that investigates the personalised responses to diets high in plant food diversity.

✅ Fully-funded
✅ Full-time PhD for 4 years

Overall aim:
To characterise the predictors of health benefits (response) to a high diversity plant food diet via a randomised parallel design feeding trial in healthy people. Potential predictors assessed are baseline dietary diversity data, stool, urine and blood metabolomic data, gut microbiome, and demographic data.

Skills:
The PhD student will gain expertise in metabolomics, microbiome analysis, bioinformatics, nutritional biomarkers for dietary intake, dietary analysis, randomised controlled trials and statistical analysis of complex datasets.

Co-supervised by Prof Kevin Whelan and Dr Kaitlin Day.

🔬 Link to project: https://lnkd.in/eupfVVtE
ℹ️ Information about eligibility and application: https://lnkd.in/eMx5-NQz
ℹ️ Application process: https://lnkd.in/eWnYAETs
📅 Application deadline: 28th October 2025, 13:00

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