Nicola is a registered dietitian, having completed her undergraduate degree in nutrition at the University of Nottingham, and her clinical rotations at the University of Houston.
She completed a Masters in Public Health at Florida International University and a PhD at Imperial College London.
She specialises in glucose homeostasis, with her Diabetes UK-funded PhD work utilising MRI, continuous glucose monitoring and meal tolerance tests in people with prediabetes. She was funded as a Winston Churchill Travel Fellow to visit the University of Colorado, Anschutz, where she worked with Profs Leigh Perreault and Bryan Bergman to explore the relationship between diet and tissue-specific insulin resistance.
She has a particular interest in the role of amino acids and dietary protein in glucose homeostasis and was a Fulbright Scholar at Tuft’s University in Boston with a project exploring sustainable protein sources.
She is committed to contributing to national and international policy statements and guidelines, and was part of the NICE Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes update panel, the Diabetes UK Clinical Studies Group for Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Management and is a serving member of the Medical Scientific and Research Committee of Heart UK.
She currently works as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and runs a clinical practice part-time.
In her spare-time she enjoys weight lifting, reading, wildlife and is a San Francisco 49ers fan.
Conflicts of Interest
Nicola has received research funding from Diabetes UK, Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation, Oviva, Innovate UK, National Institute for Health and Care Research,Medical Research Council, the Winston Churchill Travel Fund, Fulbright Commission, and the Baszucki Group.
She was previously scientific advisor to Beyond Meat, DietDoctor and sat on the Scientific Advisory Board of MyFitnessPal. She has received speaking fees from Sanofi, Eli Lilly and Company , AstraZeneca and Boehringer Ingelheim.
