The Centre for Translational Nutrition and Food Research is proud to invite Professor Robert Wilkinson from Imperial College and Professor Adrian Martineau from Queen Mary University of London and to discuss Vitamin D in the prevention and treatment of respiratory infections.
Robert J Wilkinson is a Professor in Infectious Diseases at Imperial and a Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute. Much of his research is conducted at the University of Cape Town South Africa where he is an Honorary Professor of Medicine and directs that institution’s WellcomeCentre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa. Wilkinson has contributed a number of articles on tuberculosis and HIV-associated tuberculosis.
Adrian Martineau is Clinical Professor of Respiratory Infection and Immunity at Queen Mary University of London. Adrian joined Queen Mary as a lecturer in Respiratory Medicine in 2002, and established a programme of laboratory and clinical research into the immunomodulatory actions of vitamin D in tuberculosis. He received his PhD in 2010, and is currently conducting clinical trials of vitamin D supplementation to prevent respiratory infections and non-communicable diseases in the UK, South Africa and Mongolia.