University of Reading in partnership with Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman emerged the winner of the United Kingdom-Malaysia Education Institutional Partnership Award 2023.
Set up under the UTAR Centre for Biomedical and Nutrition Research , the N²RTU has contributed exceptional results and shown significant value creation, while capitalising the best of UK and Malaysia expertise, a press release read. Led by UTAR Faculty of Science assistant professor Dr Anto Cordelia Tanislaus Antony Dhanapal and the UK principal investigator and University of Reading Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health deputy director Prof Vimal Karani, the N²RTU recognises that different individuals often have different responses to the same nutrients due to their genes and lifestyles.
“I look forward to expanding the unit and exploring collaboration with partner countries to take this to the next level and move toward precision nutrition,” she said.