Hajara Aslam
Dr Hajara Aslam is a Research Fellow at the Food & Mood Centre
She completed her PhD at the Food & Mood Centre, exploring the mechanisms linking dairy consumption with health outcomes. She also holds a Master’s degree in Food Science & Technology and a patent for a novel prebiotic formulation that enhances probiotic growth in vitro.
Hajara has led clinical trials, including the RePurpose study, which developed a plant-based supplement from an agricultural by-product and evaluated its feasibility and tolerability in a Phase I clinical trial during her Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. She also co-led to the Moo’D study as part of her PhD.
Research areas:Â Functional foods, Gut microbiota, Gut-brain axis, Fermentation, Nutritional Epidemiology
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