Symposium Speaker

Margaret Rayman

Professor Margaret Rayman has a doctorate in Inorganic Biochemistry from Somerville College, Oxford. She held post-doctoral fellowships at the Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College. Following a career break when she lived in France with her family, she returned to Science on a Daphne Jackson (woman returners) Fellowship at the University of Surrey in 1994. She is now Professor of Nutritional Medicine at Surrey where she set up the highly-respected MSc Programme in Nutritional Medicine. She has a wide knowledge of the nutrition field owing to her involvement in the Nutritional Medicine Programme. In 2006, she published the first specialist book on Nutrition and Arthritis (Blackwell Publishing) and in 2009, The Prostate Care Cookbook, a book for the general public aimed at preventing the risk or progression of prostate cancer. Her research largely centres on the importance of micronutrients, notably selenium, and more latterly iodine, to human health. She has carried out research on selenium in the following conditions: pre-eclampsia, pre-term birth, mood, thyroid function, asthma, cancer, dyslipidaemia, type-2 diabetes, and autoimmune thyroid disease. She has published a number of highly cited reviews on selenium intake, speciation and human health including a review in The Lancet in 2000 ("Importance of selenium to human health") which has just been updated to give a recent summary of the field ("Selenium and human health", on-line publication 29 February 2012). She is now working on the effect of iodine deficiency in UK pregnant women on cognitive function in their children.

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