Our researchers

Meet the academic staff who lead our major research themes and programmes.

Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding meeting with Liggins Institute staff

Nutrition and metabolism

Associate Professor Fiona Lithander
Nutrition

Dr Barbara Cormack
Neonatal nutrition

Dr Farha Ramzan
Nutrition, genetics and metabolic health

Dr Mariana Muelbert
Nutrition, metabolism and growth of preterm infants

Fetal, perinatal and maternal health

Professor Frank Bloomfield
Fetus and newborn, nutrition

Distinguished Professor Dame Jane Harding
Fetus and newborn, nutrition, neonatal glycaemia, long-term outcomes

Professor Caroline Crowther
Maternal and perinatal health

Professor Katie Groom
Maternal health

Dr Gergely Toldi
Immunology. neonatology, autoimmunity, obstetrics and gynaecology

Dr Luling Lin
Maternal and infant health, research synthesis, translational research

Dr Lisa Dawes
Obstetrics and gynaecology

Immunology

Dr Gergely Toldi
Immunology, neonatology, autoimmunity, obstetrics and gynaecology

Anna Brooks
Flow cytometry and the immune system

Mechanisms and physiology - Ngapouri Research Farm

Dr Mark Oliver
Maternal environment, intrauterine growth restriction, prematurity, nutrition for pregnant and young ruminants

Dr Anne Jaquiery
Maternal nutrition, intrauterine growth restriction, prematurity

Genome biology

Professor Justin O'Sullivan
Genetics and genome organisation

Dr Olin Silander
Evolutionary biology, microbiology, and genomics

Dr Theo Portlock
Gut microbiome, computational biology, metabolism

Cancer

Associate Professor Jo Perry
Endocrinology, growth factors

Dr Yue Wang
Cancer cell biology

Clinical endocrinology

Professor Wayne Cutfield
Paediatric endocrinology, nutrition. Director, A Better Start (National Science Challenge)

Professor Paul Hofman
Paediatric endocrinology, exercise

Dr Ben Albert
Paediatric endocrinology

Developmental programming and knowledge translation

Professor Mark Vickers
Developmental programming, nutrition

Dr Jacquie Bay
LENScience, DOHaD knowledge translation adolescent populations

Evolutionary medicine

Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
Evolutionary medicine, developmental epigenetics, and developmental origins of health and disease