Dr Graham Basten is Associate Head of the School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University (UK). He is also Head of the Biomedical and Medical Science Division. He holds a PhD from the UK Government's Institute of Food Research and has researched and lectured extensively over the past 10 years on clinical biochemistry, nutrition and folate at the Universities of Sheffield and Nottingham (UK). He is a De Montfort University Teacher Fellow and has been nominated for the Vice Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. As a principal lecturer in Clinical Chemistry he has written four textbooks and published several journal articles.

Clinical nutrition, Folate, Glucosinolates, Blood test results / pathology, CVD (homocysteine and vascular tone) and cancer risk (uracil misincorporation), Cell culture, clinical chemistry, molecular biology, vascular tone physiology (exercise), Added value, product reformulation, fortification, supplementation and functional foods, Social nutrition, Use of validated food diaries and nutrient analysis, Access to food and food policy, Community and school meals