Mark Lucock

I retired from the University of Newcastle's School of Environmental and Life Sciences in 2019 where I was an Associate Professor involved in teaching and research. Condensing my research focus into a single statement it would read: Vitamin biology (B-vitamins, and vitamin D) and nutrigenetics, taking a lifecycle approach to human health with a focus on both developmental and degenerative disorders, to include the exposome and how it might interact with genes to alter disease and influence broader aspects of human biology. My authored publication list (as of Sept 2021) is 250 articles/chapters/books, and includes several very high impact factor (>20*) research articles. My total citation number is 4,366; the highest single paper citation count being 938 and my h-Index is 33. The scope of publications range from nutrient analysis and nutrient-gene interactions to the role of B-vitamins and vitamin D in human disease and evolutionary processes. Specific research foci include: \> Role of diet in human ecology (health, disease and evolutionary biology) \> Vitamin chemistry, biochemistry, genetics and evolutionary and health significance \> Vitamins in relation to common developmental and degenerative disorders (nutritional genetic perspective) \> Evolutionary medicine, particularly ancestral genes vs contemporary diet \> Developmental origins of adult disease/epigenetics \> Nutrients and healthy ageing \> Nutritional and natural product pharmacology \> Vitamin D, UV exposure and health \> Folic acid and its dependent genes in human biology I have a BSc (Hons) in Applied Biology, PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry and am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath).