OBE appointed to Professor Yaqoob

Congratulations to Professor Parveen Yaqoob, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Joint Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Reading, who has been appointed an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

nutrients they excrete. The debate over what sustainable human diets look like, and the contribution of both plant and animal-based foods to human health and sustainability, is therefore an active one. Addressing this issue requires precise measurements of the impact of the production of feed ingredients, how livestock utilise the feed they consume, and the nature of their excretions. The use and consequences of sustainable alternative or novel feed ingredients for livestock have opened new research avenues for animal nutritionists, as well as requiring a closer collaboration between human and animal nutritionists, and with other scientific disciplines.

I view the recent establishment of The Nutrition Society Blaxter Award, of which I am its second recipient, within the context of this debate and the challenges and opprtunities it provides. After all, one of the major contributions of Sir Kenneth Blaxter was the prediction of the amount of methane, one of the major greenhouse gases produced by ruminants. His insights in this topic continue to be of relevance today and, for this reason, I feel particularly honoured to have been given an award that bears his name.