Dr. Athanasios Koutsos

Biography

Dr. Athanasios Koutsos joined the School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing at the University of Glasgow in October 2021. He holds a 5-year university degree in Food Science from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2008), and an MSc in Nutrition from the University of Reading, UK (2011), funded by a prestigious scholarship from the Greek State Foundation (IKY). In 2017, he obtained his PhD from the University of Reading, UK, in collaboration with Fondazione Edmund Mach, Trentino, Italy. His project explored the effects of apple fibre polyphenols on cardiovascular disease risk factors and gut microbiota. He has worked for four years as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Reading on a BBSRC-funded project that investigated the metabolic gut-related mechanisms underlying inter-individual variation in serum LDL-cholesterol response to dietary saturated fatty acids. Dr. Koutsos’s research focuses on the interplay between gut microbiota and health disease, exploring how diet, specific foods, and food components affect gut microbiota's composition and activity in relation to conditions like cardiovascular, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases. He employs in vitro models of the human gut and dietary human intervention studies in his investigations.

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