Professor Lisa Wood is Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy at the University of Newcastle and Nutrition Theme leader for the Immune Health Program at Hunter Medical Research Institute. She is a nutritional biochemist and Registered Nutritionist (RNutr). She leads a team of postdoctoral fellows, research assistants, and PhD students with backgrounds in biomedical science and nutrition.

Professor Wood is an experienced clinical research scientist whose research programme focuses on strategies to improve nutritional status and body composition to improve health outcomes. She established and manages a laboratory at Hunter Medical Research Institute that specialises in assessing body composition and bone mineral density and collecting biospecimens to explore mechanisms of action and identify targets for novel therapeutic interventions.

She has extensive experience conducting clinical trials, having led more than 20. She has published more than 200 full-length scientific papers and has been awarded more than $18 million in grant funding, including nationally competitive grants (NHMRC and Asthma Australia), the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, the National Institutes of Health, USA, and investigator-initiated industry-funded project grants (Sanitarium, JuicePlus, Noumi, Lifcykel).

She has many international collaborations and is a co-investigator on a National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute clinical trials grant led by the University of Chicago at Illinois.

Professor Wood is a Past President of the Nutrition Society of Australia and serves on the Research Advisory Committee for Asthma Australia.