Program leader

Professor John Hawley

Interaction of exercise and diet on the regulation of fat and carbohydrate metabolism, skeletal muscle, molecular basis of exercise training adaption, cellular bases underlying exercise induced improvements in insulin action 

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Senior Researchers

Professor Louise Burke

Sports nutrition, exercise metabolism, supplements, low energy availability and ketogenic diet

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 Professor Bruce E. Kemp

Protein phosphorylation, instrasteric regulation, peptide substrates and inhibitors, AMP activated protein kinase (AMPK) 

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Researchers

Dr Nolan Hoffman

Metabolism, exercise, nutrition, skeletal muscle physiology, type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, signal transduction, signalling networks, cellular energy sensing, AMP - activated protein kinase, glycogen, insulin action, glucose transporter GLUT4, human physiology, rodent physiology, cell biology, molecular biology, proteomics, phosphoproteomics 

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Dr Alannah McKay

Sports nutrition, exercise physiology and iron metabolism 

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Dr Evelyn Parr

Reducing obesity through changes in body composition in response to exercise and nutritional interventions

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Dr Jamie Whitfield

Skeletal muscle physiology, exercise physiology, metabolism, exercise science, nutrition and exercise performance 

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Dr Eva Zopf

Exercise physiology, exercise as medicine, exercise oncology, cancer, supportive care and randomised controlled trials

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Fawzan Dinnunhan 

Research Assistant 

Steve Flint 

Clinical Research Officer 

Ben Harvey

WoW Study Coordinator 

Rachel McCormick 

Research Project Coordinator 

Bridget Radford

Clinical Trials Project Coordinator 

Mark Trevaskis 

Clinical Trials Project Coordinator (Exercise Oncology)

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