Journal of Nutrition and Health Sciences

Dr Mridula Chopra is a Senior Lecturer and Course leader for MSc Biomedicine at the University of Portsmouth. She is a Biochemist graduate of Strathclyde University, Glasgow and began her research career in the same university in the field of free radicals and antioxidants. She continued similar research in her post-doctoral positions at the University of Strathclyde, Ninewells hospital, Dundee, MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit, Cambridge and the University of Ulster before taking up the Senior Lecturer position in 2002 in the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Portsmouth.

Her focus of research is in the nutritional intervention of chronic diseases associated with aging.

• Mechanism of action of Lycopene in prostate cancer and brain tumour
• Lifestyle intervention of diabetes
• Antimicrobial and anticancer properties of Honey