Principal Investigator: Professor Roger Whittaker
Mitochondrial diseases affect 1 in 4,500 people, with muscle weakness and fatigue being common symptoms. Several clinical trials have suggested exercise as an effective treatment,…
Jamie Coulter
This research aims to allow the development of new therapeutics for orofacial pain patients.
Toothache is common, affecting up to 1 in 10 people in the UK and…
Lucy Gee
This project aims to investigate the specific effects bile acids have on cell populations within the brain, as well as the ability of drug treatments to reverse these…
Jadine Scragg
This feasibility study aims to assess the proposed recruitment strategies in a well-defined patient group with advanced Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and will determine whether…
Samantha Waite
This research investigates sarcopenia and frailty in individuals with prodromal dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer’s disease.
Sarcopenia and frailty are both increasingly recognised in older patients, but…
Matthew Hunt
HIV is now a chronic manageable condition, but health span is less well preserved than lifespan. People living with HIV (PLWH) present a valuable model in which to…
Roisin Stout
The main objective of this project is to investigate the role of mitochondrial dysfunction in ageing- specifically in relation to the skin.
Mitochondria are the batteries of the…
Nana-Jane Chipampe
This project aims to establish the suitability of measuring mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) by sequencing Non-muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer patients’ urine.
Bladder cancer is the most common urinary tract…
Thomas Creasey
Genomic characterisation of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in older adults
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most frequent cancer of childhood but the disease also becomes more common with…
Stuart Maitland
Neurophysiology of age-related muscle weakness
As we grow old, we lose muscle bulk and strength. This muscle loss, termed ‘sarcopenia’, is a major burden on the health and…
Sadaf Iqbal
Full title: Innovative data mining using deep learning advanced photoplethysmography pulse wave analysis for the assessment of endothelial dysfunction in systemic sclerosis and related cardiovascular conditions.
This project focuses…
Ramtin Mehraram
This research focuses on assessing how the electrical activity of the brain is affected in the different forms of dementia. With this research he aims to contribute in…
