DrKaterinaPetropoulou

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Research Associate

Contact

+44 (0)7428 732 523katerina.petropoulou12

Location

Commonwealth BuildingCommonwealth BuildingHammersmith Campus

Summary

Dr Katerina Petropoulou received her PhD in July 2019 and is currently working as Innovation Hub Manager and Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Nutrition Research Group under the supervision of Professor Gary Frost.

Her research is focused on identifying dietary tools to tackle nutrition related chronic diseases. During her PhD she tried to understand the effect of unique plant based food structures, with high resistant starch content, on gastrointestinal digestion and metabolic related biomarkers, appetite, weight prevention and glucose homeostasis.

In March 2019, she presented the results of her PhD at the STEM for BRITAIN competition at the Houses of Commons and received the STEM for BRITAIN Inaugural Physiological Society award.

Prior to her PhD studies she worked as a Research Assistant and Dietetic Research Assistant in the same group where she was actively involved in large UK and European Human Clinical Trials. She moved to Imperial College London after completing her undergraduate studies in Human Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University in 2012.

Publications

Journals

Pugh J, Anjum A, Petropoulou K, et al.Pugh J, Anjum A, Petropoulou K, Thom G, Mccombie L, Tashkova M, Alaraj-Alshehhi S, Babalis D, Prechtl C, Lean MJ, Prevost AT, Vasconcelos JC, Preston T, Morrison D, Frost G close, 2022, Increase in colonic PRopionate as a method of prEVENTing weight gain in adults aged 20-40 years (iPREVENT): A multi-centre, double-blind, randomised, parallel-group study to investigate the efficacy of inulin-propionate ester versus inulin (control) in the prevention of weight gain over 12 months, F1000research, Vol:11, ISSN:2046-1402, Pages:1-14

Petropoulou K, Salt LJ, Edwards CH, et al.Petropoulou K, Salt LJ, Edwards CH, Warren FJ, Garcia-Perez I, Chambers ES, Alshaalan R, Khatib M, Perez-Moral N, Cross KL, Kellingray L, Stanley R, Koev T, Khimyak YZ, Narbad A, Penney N, Serrano-Contreras JI, Charalambides MN, Miguens Blanco J, Castro Seoane R, McDonald JAK, Marchesi JR, Holmes E, Godsland IF, Morrison DJ, Preston T, Domoney C, Wilde PJ, Frost GS close, 2020, A natural mutation in Pisum sativum L. (pea) alters starch assembly and improves glucose homeostasis in humans, Nature Food

Greenwood DC, Hardie LJ, Frost GS, et al.Greenwood DC, Hardie LJ, Frost GS, Alwan NA, Bradbury KE, Carter M, Elliott P, Evans CEL, Ford HE, Hancock N, Key TJ, Liu B, Morris MA, Mulla UZ, Petropoulou K, Potter GDM, Riboli E, Young H, Wark PA, Cade JE close, 2019, Validation of the Oxford WebQ Online 24-hour dietary questionnaire using biomarkers, American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol:188, ISSN:1476-6256, Pages:1858-1867

Wark PA, Hardie LJ, Frost GS, et al.Wark PA, Hardie LJ, Frost GS, Alwan NA, Carter M, Elliott P, Ford HE, Hancock N, Morris MA, Mulla UZ, Noorwali EA, Petropoulou K, Murphy D, Potter GDM, Riboli E, Greenwood DC, Cade JE close, 2018, Validity of an online 24-h recall tool (myfood24) for dietary assessment in population studies: comparison with biomarkers and standard interviews, Bmc Medicine, Vol:16, ISSN:1741-7015

Patents

Frost G, Domoney C, Wilde P, et al.Frost G, Domoney C, Wilde P, Rayner T, Petropoulou A, Edwards C close, 2021, Foodstuffs having improved digestion properties, WO2022053494A1

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