Professor Andy Salter

Andy Salter is a Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham. In 1982 he completed his PhD studies at Guy's Hospital Medical School (University of London) looking at looking at lipoprotein metabolism and cardiovascular disease in patients with Diabetes Mellitus. He then moved to the University of Toronto, Canada where he extended this work to look at changes in lipoprotein metabolism associated with obesity. In 1984 he moved to the University of Nottingham Medical School to take up a British Heart Foundation Fellowship focussed on dietary and hormonal control of hepatic lipid and lipoprotein metabolism.

He moved to the School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham in 1989 to take up a lectureship where he has continued to study the molecular mechanisms whereby diet impacts on lipid metabolism in relation to metabolic disease. This work has also been extended to look at how the fat and fatty acid composition of animal products (meat and milk) can be manipulated to produce healthier products.

In recent years he has also developed a parallel research portfolio associated with Global Food Security. This has specifically focused on the sustainable production of novel sources of dietary lipids and proteins, as both human foods and feeds for aquaculture and farm animal production.