报告题目：Taking ownership of your career in the context of changing boundaries
报告人：Professor Vimal Karani S
报告时间：2024年5月23，周四15：00-16:00
报告地点：8号楼粮油食品学院8313
报告人及内容简介：
Vimal Karani is a Professor in Nutrigenetics & Nutrigenomics at the University of Reading, UK. He is a Scientific Advisory Board member of the Scottish Government, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture (ENRA) and the Deputy Director of Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health at Reading, UK. He joined the University of Reading after his post-doctoral training at the MRC Epidemiology unit (Cambridge, UK) and senior research fellowship at the University College London (London, UK). He has received advanced training in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Professor Vimal Karani has published extensively in areas related to nutrigenetics and non-communicable diseases and presently has more than 110 peer reviewed publications (including those in premier biomedical journals: Nature Genetics, Lancet, BMJ, PLoS Medicine and PLoS Genetics) and book chapters. He has received significant global media attention for his work on nutrition, lifestyle and cardiometabolic diseases. He has received funds as a PI and Co-I from various funding bodies and, in the last eight years, the grants that he has been associated with are of the value ~£3.6 million. He won the UK Nutrition Society's Silver Medal award for the year 2020 for his contribution to the world of global nutrition and won the UK-Malaysia Education Institutional Partnership Award 2023 for delivering a significant impact at the regional level and for showing significant value-creation to the education sector in Malaysia and the UK.
Professor Vimal Karani will talk about his career journey from being a student to becoming a Professor.
粮油食品学院 国际教育学院
2024年5月22日
