About the event
The liver is an amazing organ carrying out a multitude of tasks for the human body, with a particular key role in metabolism. It is central to how nutrients are processed and stored. However, when we consume food and alcohol in excess the liver can take a turn for the worse.
In his Inaugural Professorial lecture, Professor Vinood Patel will tell us about his personal 30-year journey through the development of new research methods, discoveries and clinical findings. His story has identified the damaging roles of fat, alcohol and iron in causing liver disease.
Vinood B. Patel
Vinood B. Patel, BSc, PhD, FRSC Professor Patel graduated from the University of Portsmouth with a degree in Pharmacology and completed his PhD in protein metabolism from King’s College School of Medicine & Dentistry, London in 1997. His subsequent postdoctoral work was carried out at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical School, NC, USA studying structural-functional alterations to liver mitochondrial ribosomes due to alcohol exposure, where he developed novel techniques to characterise their biophysical properties. In 2004 he joined the University of Westminster where he established a research group studying the role of antioxidants, phytochemicals, iron, alcohol and fatty acids in the pathophysiology of metabolic conditions, such as liver disease. Other areas of interest include identifying novel biomarkers for alcohol-related liver disease, and iron dysregulation in diabetes. In 2014 he was elected as a Fellow to The Royal Society of Chemistry.
Location
Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HW
