Professor Clare Mills

Professor Mills is a Programme Grant leader.  Working with four other research leaders she developed a new programme of research relating food structure to health benefits of foods and in due course became a member of the IFR Executive Board. In 2011 Professor Mills moved to the University of Manchester to take up her current position. Based in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology and part of the Respiratory and Allergy Research team at the Wythenshawe Hospital she is now applying molecular science to understand, better diagnose and treat allergic and associated respiratory disease. She has led several international EU-funded projects in food allergy collectively worth around €23M. This included the EuroPrevall project 63 partners from 17 countries, including India, China, Russia and Ghana, spanning clinical science, epidemiology, social science, biochemical and immunological sciences, academia and industry. After moving to the University of Manchester she led the 38 partner, iFAAM project which sought to exploit much of the knowledge gained in EuroPrevall to develop tools and approaches to enable more effective management of food allergies.

Professor Mill’s research interest is focussed around the relationship between biophysical properties of proteins and their structural attributes within the context of behaviour during digestion in the gastrointestinal tract, and in particular with regards what makes some foods, like peanut, more allergenic than others, and why some food proteins become allergens.

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