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Bitter truths and sweet discoveries: Understanding how taste receptors affect our health

2:00pm-3:00pm on Saturday 21 March

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Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, CB1 1PT

Professor Havovi Chichger will delve into the weird and wonderful locations in the body that can taste, and also consider how and why these tissues and organs, including the brain and heart, sense taste and what this means in relation to our diet and health.

Professor Havovi Chichger [https://www.aru.ac.uk/people/havovi-chichger] received her PhD from University College London, where she studied how taste sensors impact kidney function in diabetes. She then joined the Vascular Research Laboratory at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA, where she developed a keen interest in understanding how taste receptors function in lung disease. In 2015, she joined Anglia Ruskin University, where her research focuses on identifying how taste receptors regulate human health, and how we can use this information to develop new medicines to treat different diseases. Professor Chichger has published her work in major scientific journals, and her discoveries have led to the development of two international patents that are linked to a current clinical trial.

Event presented by Anglia Ruskin University.

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Age: Adults
Format: Talk
Timing: In person
Cost: Free
Event Capacity: 400
Theme: Health
Accessibility: Full access, Accessible toilet

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