What a releif that we have people so much more knowledgeable than Christopher Proud PHD, an award winning physiologist and biology professor and scientist who has spent the majority of his career studying and teaching other professionals about nutrition. I might have made the mistake of taking some of his nonsense seriously.
“Chris Proud
Positions
Theme Leader, Nutrition & Metabolism, SAHMRI, Adelaide, Australia
Director, Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology (formally the Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit)
Affiliate Professor, Biochemistry & Cell Biology, University of Adelaide, Australia
Deputy Node Head (SA Node), EMBL Australia Partner Laboratory
Qualifications
BSc University of Bristol, UK
PhD University of Dundee, UK
Awards and Honours
Chartered Biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
Member of Faculty of 1000
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award
Susan Swerling lecturer – Dana Farber Cancer Center Harvard Medical School, USA
White Lecturer - Loyola University Chicago, USA”
“Professor Chris Proud has held positions as lecturer, reader or professor in universities in the UK, Germany and Canada.
At the University of Dundee (Scotland), alongside his duties as Head of the Division of Molecular Physiology, he also coordinated the Medical Research Council Nutrient Sensing & Signalling Research Group.
From 2005-2008, he was Head of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, where he continued his research into the molecular mechanisms that regulate protein synthesis. He also served as co-Director of that University’s Life Sciences Institute.
Chris worked at the University of Southampton from 2008 – 2014 where he led a substantial research team studying the mechanisms that control protein synthesis and ribosome biogenesis. He studied their roles in metabolic diseases such as diabetes, in cancer, in cardiovascular disorders, and in neurological processes.
He has supervised more than forty MSc or PhD students and about fifty postdoctoral researchers.
In September 2014 Chris moved to Adelaide to take up the position of Theme Leader: Nutrition and Metabolism at the SAHMRI.
Chris is also an affiliate Professor in Molecular and Biomedical Science at the University of Adelaide.
Chris is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Biochemical Journal and f1000 Research. He holds a Visiting Professorship at China Ocean University in Qingdao.
His research at SAHMRI includes studies on the regulation of protein synthesis nutrients and hormones; cancer cell biology; and the molecular mechanisms involved in diet-induced inflammation, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Much of this research focuses on protein kinases that control the protein synthesis machinery, i.e., mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K) and the MAP kinase-interacting kinases (MNKs).
Since 2016, he has also been Director of the Hopwood Centre for Neurobiology (formally the Lysosomal Diseases Research Unit) at SAHMRI (the HCN)
Publications
He has authored almost 300 research papers, review articles and book chapters and has a current ‘h-index’ of 90.”
https://www.sahmriresearch.org/our-research/themes/nutrition-metabolism/our-team/professor-chris-proud
https://www.sahmriresearch.org/our-research/themes/nutrition-metabolism/theme-leader-3
