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 Dr
Roche is a Wellcome Trust New Blood Fellow & Senior
Lecturer (Molecular Nutrition) in TCD. She established
the Nutrigenomics Research Group at the Institute of
Molecular Medicine (TCD) in 2000. Dr Roche is joint co-ordinator
of
LIPGENE an EU Framework 6 Integrated Project worth
€12.5m to investigate the interaction between dietary
fat intake, genetic background and the metabolic
syndrome. She also was a co-founder of the
European
Nutrigenomics Organisation. Current research
projects focus on nutrient regulation of gene
expression, specifically the effects of dietary fatty
acid on the interactions between insulin sensitivity and
inflammation, within the context of cardiovascular
disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus and CVD.
Dr Roche has/had projects funded by The Wellcome Trust,
the European Union Sixth Framework Programme, The
Department of Food, Agriculture and Rural Development,
Enterprise Ireland and Science Foundation Ireland. Dr
Roche has at least 30 publications cited in Medline.
Recent work published in several top nutrition-related
journals (Journal of Immunology, FASEB J, Diabetes,
Atherosclerosis, Am J Clin Nutr; Br J Nutr, etc.),
presented novel findings with respect to nutrient
regulation of gene expression, proteomics in cell
culture models, animal studies and human dietary
intervention studies. She regularly presents research
international nutrition conferences and referees papers
for the top nutrition related journals. Dr Roche was
also editor of the Nutrition Society Textbook series for
undergraduate and post-graduate nutrition education.
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