Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health

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Human nutrition research at the University of Ulster is conducted in the Northern Ireland Centre for Food & Health (NICHE), a centre of excellence set up with EU structural funds in 1996 to provide greater understanding of diet-related health issues.
NICHE has 24 academic, 4 technical and 18 research staff, as well as over 20 postgraduate research students.

The aim of NICHE is:

To understand diet related health issues by performing fundamental research in nutrition & investigate the relationship between diet & chronic disease.

Latest news:

University of Ulster Research Reveals Vitamin Link to Curbing Blood Pressure 10 May 2012.

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Sign up for: Master Class in Nutrition Series Food Safety: challenges in risk assessment, management & communication on 20-21 June 2012.

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A tribute to our dear colleague and friend, Dr Julie Wallace, 7th April 1971 - 7th February 2012

University events

Inaugural Professorial Lecture By Neville Mcclenaghan, Professor Of Bio-innovation And Enterprise 13th April 2011: 18:30 - 20:00 Lecture Theatre 8, Coleraine campus

"Academic Enterprise: Go Create..."
Lecture followed by refreshments