Andrew Prentice BSc PhD
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Andrew Prentice joined the Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit in January 1999 to create a new MRC International Nutrition Group. Born in Uganda, he studied in East Africa and the UK obtaining a BSc in biochemistry followed by a PhD in Nutrition from Darwin College, Cambridge. He worked in the MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit's rural field station in Keneba, The Gambia from 1978-83, and has since maintained close research links conducting numerous projects on nutrition in pregnancy and lactation. In 1983 he returned to the Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge to become Head of Human Energy Metabolism where he specialised in studying the regulation of energy balance with a particular focus on obesity. In 1998 he became scientific director of the MRC Keneba fieldstation and of the Nutrition Programme for MRC Laboratories, The Gambia, a role he still maintains.
Affiliation
Teaching
MSc Public Health Nutrition.
Research
His current research focuses on early life programming of immune function, nutrient-gene interactions (especially in relation to iron and infectious diseases), reproductive nutrition, and consequences of the nutrition transition in developing countries with research collaborations in Gambia, Chile, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, and Pakistan. He has been a member of numerous national and international advisory committees, and held senior posts in several academic associations. He is a member of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Health Discovery Expert Advisory Group and is the EV McCollum International Lecturer fro the American Society of Nutrition 2010/11.
Research areas
- Child health
- Micronutrients
Disciplines
- Genomics
- Nutrition
Disease and Health Conditions
- Malnutrition
Other interests
- Immune Programming
- MARCH
- Nutritional Immunology,nutrientgene Interactions
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Selected publications
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Long-term effects of perinatal nutrition on T lymphocyte kinetics in young Gambian men.
Ghattas, H.; Wallace, D.L.; Solon, J.A.; Henson, S.M.; Zhang, Y.; Ngom, P.T.; Aspinall, R.; Morgan, G.; Griffin, G.E.; Prentice, A.M.; Macallan, D.C.;
Am J Clin Nutr, 2007; 85(2):480-7
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The haptoglobin 2-2 genotype is associated with a reduced incidence of Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children on the coast of Kenya
Atkinson, S.H.; Mwangi, T.W.; Uyoga, S.M.; Ogada, E.; Macharia, A.W.; Marsh, K.; Prentice, A.M.; Williams, T.N.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2007; 44(6):802-809
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Host-pathogen interactions: can micronutrients tip the balance?
Prentice, A.M.; Ghattas, H.; Cox, S.E.;
J Nutr, 2007; 137(5):1334-7
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Effectiveness of an early supplementation scheme of high-dose vitamin A versus standard WHO protocol in Gambian mothers and infants: a randomised controlled trial.
Darboe, M.K.; Thurnham, D.I.; Morgan, G.; Adegbola, R.A.; Secka, O.; Solon, J.A.; Jackson, S.J.; Northrop-Clewes, C.; Fulford, T.J.; Doherty, C.P.; Prentice, A.M.;
Lancet, 2007; 369(9579):2088-96
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Iron and infection: effects of host iron status and the iron-regulatory genes haptoglobin and NRAMP1 (SLC11A1) on host-pathogen interactions in tuberculosis and HIV.
McDermid, J.M.; Prentice, A.M.;
Clin Sci (Lond), 2006; 110(5):503-24
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Differential effects of seasonality on preterm birth and intrauterine growth restriction in rural Africans.
Rayco-Solon, P.; Fulford, A.J.; Prentice, A.M.;
Am J Clin Nutr, 2005; 81(1):134-9
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Developmental changes in leptin as a measure of energy status in human infants in a natural ecologic setting.
Collinson, A.; Moore, S.; O'connell, M.; Charalambos, C.; Prentice, A.;
Am J Clin Nutr, 2005; 81(2):488-94
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Starvation in humans: Evolutionary background and contemporary implications.
Prentice, A.M.;
Mech Ageing Dev, 2005; 126(9):976-81
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