London Metropolitan University Research Institutes
 

Research and Consultancy

Research


In addition to undertaking active research that covers future Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) / Research Assessment Activities (RAE), the Institute is currently engaged in the following applied research areas:

  • Intervention strategies for managing weight loss in obese populations
  • Design and synthesis of biomedical probes
  • Evasion of immune response by HIV
  • Molecular studies on diseases linked to iron and copper imbalance
  • Isolation and characterisation de novo of natural therapies from plant sources
  • Structure and function relationship of herbal products that have potential pharmaceutical properties
  • Developing de novo systems linked to cell transplantation
  • Evaluating and formulating policies that promote science through health in schools and communities
  • Risk assessment linked to the delivery of health care provision


Consultancy

  • Nutritional assessment and obesity
  • Bioinformatics
  • Custom synthesis of molecular probes for medical imaging
  • Structure elucidation of herbal extracts by NMR spectroscopy
  • Small molecules crystallography


If you require any further details of our service then please contact: ihrp@londonmet.ac.uk






 

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