New deputy director at the Riddet Institute

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Image: Newly appointed Riddet Institute deputy director Professor Warren McNabb.

Massey University’s Riddet Institute is today welcoming Professor Warren McNabb, as the Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) deputy director.

Professor McNabb joins Massey following his most recent role as research director at AgResearch. He is also a Principal Investigator at the Riddet Institute and is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences.

Riddet Institute co-director Distinguished Professor Paul Moughan says Professor McNabb’s move to the Institute means a return to fundamental research. “I am delighted Warren is joining the team, and look forward to seeing him in a high-level science leadership role. He has had an excellent career of leadership in agrifoods science. It is wonderful that a person with so much yet to give to leadership in foods and wider agriculture, has been retained by the Riddet Institute.”

Professor Giselle Byrnes, Assistant Vice-Chancellor, Research, Academic and Enterprise for Massey University, who chaired the selection committee for the recruitment to this position says, “We are delighted to welcome Professor McNabb to the Riddet Institute and look forward to his leadership, both in advancing the Institute’s engagement agenda and in progressing key science research projects, including building research capability and capacity through postgraduate supervision.”

Biography:

Professor Warren McNabb was appointed Research Director for AgResearch in June 2011. He joined AgResearch in 1993 as senior research scientist in the Nutrition and Behaviour Group, promoted to eminent research scientist in 2004, then to general manager of the Food and Textiles Group in 2009.
His recent research has focused on nutrigenomics and nutritional epigenetics, and on food-host-microbial interactions and food for human health and wellbeing.

Professor McNabb has authored more than 200 publications, including several book chapters and invited reviews. He completed a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Honours) 1st Class in Animal Science at Massey University in 1986, and a PhD in Animal Science at Massey University in 1990.

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