Professor Richard Mellanby: The science of Vitamin D in animals and humans

About this episode

Professor Richard Mellanby discusses the science of Vitamin D and its impact on health in both animals and humans.

Richard graduated from Glasgow University as a vet in 1998, and spent time at Cambridge University before returning to Scotland. He was awarded a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellowship to undertake studies into T cell activation and regulation in diabetes and awarded a PhD in 2007. Richard runs a basic science and clinical research programme at Edinburgh University where he moved in 2007, focused on further understanding of how nutrition influences health outcomes and the immune system.

People in this episode

Guest: Professor Richard Mellanby

Topics covered

• Vitamin D
• nutrition
• health
• immune system
• T cell activation

Keywords

• veterinary science
• clinical research
• Edinburgh University

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: PhD

Places: Scotland

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