Rate My Professor Sophie Moore

Prior to King’s College London, she was Group Leader in Maternal and Child Nutrition at MRC Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge. From 2000 to 2006 and 2012 to 2014, she worked with the MRC’s International Nutrition Group at LSHTM, leading the Early Growth and Development research theme. Between 2006 and 2012, she served as Head of Station at MRC Keneba in The Gambia. Moore was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2020, funding her work through 2025. Her highly cited publications include “Critical windows for nutritional interventions against stunting” (Prentice et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2013), “Modification of immune function through exposure to dietary aflatoxin in Gambian children” (Turner et al., Environmental Health Perspectives, 2003), “Maternal nutrition at conception modulates DNA methylation of human metastable epialleles” (Dominguez-Salas et al., Nature Communications, 2014), “The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) recommendations on adolescent, preconception, and maternal nutrition: ‘Think Nutrition First’” (Hanson et al., 2015), and “What’s normal? Oligosaccharide concentrations and profiles in milk produced by healthy women vary geographically” (McGuire et al., American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2017). In 2023, she delivered her Inaugural Lecture, “From North to South: Navigating Global Health Nutrition.” Her research has significantly influenced understanding of early-life nutrition interventions.