Bitter truths and sweet discoveries: how taste receptors affect our health

Sat Mar 21 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC+00:00

Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge | Cambridge

Anglia Ruskin University - Community Engagement
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Bitter truths and sweet discoveries: how taste receptors affect our health
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Prof Havovi Chichger delves into the weird and wonderful sense of taste and considers what this may mean for our health
About this Event

Prof Havovi Chichger will delve into the weird and wonderful locations in the body which can taste and considers how and why these tissues and organs, including the brain and heart, sense taste and what this means in relation to our diet and health.

About our speaker

Professor Havovi Chichger received her PhD from University College London studying how taste sensors impact kidney function in diabetes. She joined the Vascular Research Laboratory at Brown University after this where she developed a keen interest in understanding how taste receptors function in lung disease. In 2015, she joined Anglia Ruskin University where her research focuses on identifying how taste receptors regulate human health and how we can use this information to develop new medicines to treat different diseases. Prof Chichger has work published in major scientific journals and her discoveries have led to the development of 2 international patents linked to a current clinical trial.

Event presented as part of the Cambridge Festival.

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Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, East Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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