DrAygul Dagbasi

Research Fellow

Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction - Faculty of Medicine

BIO

Dr Aygul Dagbasi is a Post-Doctoral researcher working under the supervision of Professor Gary Frost. She started her career as a dietitian at Rotherham NHS Trust in 2015. Her career took a turn towards research when she received Dean's Master Scholarship from Imperial College to do a MRes in Clinical Research as part of the human nutrition pathway. She then received President's PhD Scholarship to complete her PhD under the supervision of Professor Gary Frost and Professor Kevin Murphy at Imperial College.

Her research is focused on understanding the link between food structures, gut microbiota, ileal metabolism and appetite regulation. She received the BNF Pump Priming Award in 2022 to support her research in this area. Dr Dagbasi is also the organiser and a member of an UKRI funded ageing network called Ageing and Nutrient Sensing Network.

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Medicine

POSITION NAME

  • Research Fellow

FIELDS OF RESEARCH