Helen Roche PhD, MSc, BSc

Helen Roche's academic background is in Human Nutrition & Molecular Medicine. Her appointment as Associate Professor of Nutrigenomics bridges disciplines based at the UCD Conway Institute and the UCD Institute of Food & Health within UCD. She is also a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Principal Investigator and a Food for Health Ireland (FHI) Principal Investigator. In 2014 she won significant funding from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; NUTRIMAL is a large project grant addressing 'Novel Nutritional Solutions to Combat Malnutrition in the Elderly' in collaboration with the HSE, SafeFood, and a number of industry partners. In collaboration with UCC APC, another FIRM award ImmunoMet will address the interactions between nutritional status, metabolic health, and gut microbiome. Earlier in her career as Wellcome Trust Fellow & Senior Lecturer in Molecular Nutrition at TCD, Dr. Roche established the first Nutrigenomics research group in Ireland, at the Institute of Molecular Medicine at TCD.