Simon Langley-Evans

Simon Langley-Evans
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsHuman nutrition
InstitutionsUniversity of Nottingham

Simon Langley-Evans is a British scientist who is Emeritus Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Nottingham.[1]

Education

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He obtained his BSc in Biochemistry and Microbiology from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London in 1986. His PhD was from the University of Southampton (1990).

Career

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Langley-Evans was the head of the University of Nottingham School of Biosciences between 2016 and 2021.

Langley-Evans was the winner of the Nutrition Society Silver Medal in 2005.[2]

In 2012 he was awarded a DSc from the University of Nottingham in recognition of his contribution to research into the early life origins of adult disease. His principal contribution was the development of experimental models to test the hypothesis that variation in maternal nutrition during pregnancy could programme long-term health and disease.[3][4] A long-term champion of equality, diversity and inclusion, for which he was awarded the Vice Chancellor's Medal [5] in 2016, Langley-Evans has been outspoken in criticising declining standards of scholarship in the nutrition field [6] and has written about the lack of care taken by the academic community to prevent burnout and poor mental health.[7]

In addition to publishing more than 150 papers in scientific journals[8] and has contributed to several books on early life programming as editor[9] and author,[10][11][12][13] Langley-Evans is the author of an academic textbook entitled Nutrition, Health and Disease: A Lifespan Approach,[14][15][16] of which the third edition was published in 2021, and is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. Outreach work to further understanding of nutrition science has included participation in I'm A Scientist Get Me Out Of Here and provision of specialist advice for a children's book.[17]

Selected publications

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  • Lloyd, L. J.; Langley-Evans, S. C.; McMullen, S. (2012). "Childhood obesity and risk of the adult metabolic syndrome: A systematic review". International Journal of Obesity. 36 (1): 1–11. doi:10.1038/ijo.2011.186. PMC 3255098. PMID 22041985.[1] (open access) (Cited 412 times, according to Google Scholar. )
  • McMullen, S.; Langley-Evans, S.C.; Gambling, L.; Lang, C.; Swali, A.; McArdle, H.J. (2012). "A common cause for a common phenotype: The gatekeeper hypothesis in fetal programming". Medical Hypotheses. 78 (1): 88–94. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2011.09.047. PMC 3426771. PMID 22047985. S2CID 13554528.
  • McMullen, Sarah; Langley-Evans, Simon C. (2005). "Maternal low-protein diet in rat pregnancy programs blood pressure through sex-specific mechanisms". American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 288 (1): R85–R90. doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00435.2004. PMID 15374820.
  • Langley, Simon C.; Jackson, Alan A. (1994). "Increased Systolic Blood Pressure in Adult Rats Induced by Fetal Exposure to Maternal Low Protein Diets". Clinical Science. 86 (2): 217–222. doi:10.1042/cs0860217. PMID 8143432.

References

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  1. ^ Langley-Evans, Simon. "Simon Langley-Evans".
  2. ^ "Silver Medal". www.nutritionsociety.org. The Nutrition Society. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. ^ Langley-Evans, Simon C.; McMullen, Sarah (2010). "Developmental Origins of Adult Disease". Medical Principles and Practice. 19 (2): 87–98. doi:10.1159/000273066. ISSN 1011-7571. PMID 20134170. S2CID 13719303.
  4. ^ Langley-Evans, Simon C. (2009). "Nutritional programming of disease: unravelling the mechanism". Journal of Anatomy. 215 (1): 36–51. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7580.2008.00977.x. ISSN 1469-7580. PMC 2714637. PMID 19175805.
  5. ^ https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/registrar/registrars-office/vc-medal.aspx
  6. ^ Langley-Evans, Simon C. (2023). "Bad science: time for our community to do better". Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 36 (4): 1127–1130. doi:10.1111/jhn.13165. PMID 37067000. S2CID 258180783.
  7. ^ Langley-Evans, Simon C. (2023). "Burnout: The peril stalking academics and researchers". Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. 36 (4): 1127–1130. doi:10.1111/jhn.13135. PMID 37066996. S2CID 258178428.
  8. ^ "langley-evans - Search Results - PubMed". PubMed. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  9. ^ Fetal nutrition and adult disease : programming of chronic disease through fetal exposure to undernutrition. S. C. Langley-Evans. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX: CABI Pub. in association with the Nutrition Society. 2004. ISBN 0-85199-062-2. OCLC 182530283.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  10. ^ Early life origins of ageing and longevity. Alexander Vaiserman. Cham. 2019. ISBN 978-3-030-24958-8. OCLC 1114337657.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  11. ^ The biology of child health : a reader in development and assessment. Sarah Neill, Helen Knowles. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. ISBN 0-333-77636-4. OCLC 56672014.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ^ Perinatal programming : the state of the art. Andreas Plagemann. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2012. ISBN 978-3-11-024945-3. OCLC 769343064.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  13. ^ Personalized nutrition : principles and applications. Frans Kok, Laura Bouwman, Frank Desiere. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8493-9281-8. OCLC 105457215.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ^ Langley-Evans, Simon (17 August 2015). Nutrition, health and disease (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. doi:10.1002/9781119180432. ISBN 9781119180432.
  15. ^ "Nutrition: A Lifespan Approach". Wiley. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  16. ^ Langley-Evans, S. C. (2021). Nutrition, Health and Disease : A Lifespan Approach (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-119-71754-6. OCLC 1287758905.
  17. ^ Knighton, Kate (2008). Why shouldn't I eat junk food?. Adam Larkum, Jane Chisholm, Susan Meredith. [Tulsa, Okla.]: [EDC Pub.] ISBN 978-0-7945-1953-7. OCLC 179830663.
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