Health research
Human health related research conducted in the Institute of Life and Earth Sciences is expanding, and concerned with evaluating; 1) the ability of a wide range of substances, such as nanomaterials, to cause adverse health effects following human exposure, 2) the mechanisms underlying the development of human disease and 3) the role of nutrition as a means of prevention against human disease and 4) the relationships between environmental exposures and health. Research activities in these areas are very multidisciplinary and fall into the below four main themes.