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Hajara Aslam

Dr Hajara Aslam is a Research Fellow at the Food & Mood Centre

Hajara is a Research Fellow at the Food & Mood Centre and a Registered Nutritionist (RNutr), specialising in the intersection of diet, mental, and metabolic health. Her work focuses on developing sustainable dietary therapies and lifestyle interventions to improve metabolic and mental health, supporting public health initiatives and prevention strategies.

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: Functional foods, Gut microbiota, Gut-brain axis, Fermentation, Nutritional Epidemiology

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