Richard Page

Project Title: Consequences of the grazed pasture diversity on annual variability of nutritional value and technological properties of milk, and nutritional status of Holstein-Friesian and Jersey Holstein-Friesian crossbred dairy cows.

Overview: Richard focuses on the chemical and nutritional make-up of food, he finds this all the more fascinating when linked to fundamental themes underpinning biology and health. He is intrigued by interactions of food constituents with complex systems of life, from the micro-scale, whole organism to wider biodiversity. 

Richard completed an undergraduate genetics dissertation at ICH Great Ormond Street, working with blood, DNA-extraction, PCR, gel-electrophoresis, DNA-sequencing and computational-analysis. Richard’s aptitude for information-analysis was then applied within technical business settings including a high-profile Operations Head (Vice-President) position at a multinational. Leadership, people and project management experiences resulted in strong collaborative working skills. Richard has enterprise start-up experience, establishing a rural food business aligned to a digital community. He completed the Business-of-Food course at Ballymaloe and won Best-Use-of-Digital-by-a-Start-Up at Cork's Digital Marketing Awards.

As a Walsh Scholar Richard now builds upon experiences achieved within a Graduate Diploma in Food, Nutrition and Health; he is developing scientific skills in metabolomics, nutritional and functional analysis of food. Milk products are consumed widely; their functionality, nutrition and production methods have significance to public health, animal health and agricultural economies. Richard is delighted to contribute to meaningful, commercially relevant science whilst supporting Irish sustainability.

Programme Area: Food

Supervisors: Dr. Prabin Lamichhane, Dr. Tom O’Callaghan and Dr. Seamus O’Mahony

Location: Teagasc, Moorepark, Fermoy

Funding Source: Teagasc