WHO WE ARE
We want to help create exercise-based therapeutics
Our laboratory is dedicated to discovering what are the key molecules that mediate the beneficial effects of exercise, and in help creating future exercise-based medications.
When you exercise, your muscles produce substances with important health benefits!
Physical exercise and muscle condition play an important role in disease prevention and treatment. In part because you use excess energy stored in your body, and in part because contracting muscles release factors (myokines) that promote a healthy mind and a healthy body.
Staying physically active is the key to healthy ageing. But why?
Sedentary lifestyles with low levels of physical activity come at a high cost to our health and have been linked to the incidence of diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, neuro-degenerative diseases (Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s), mood disorders (e.g. depression), and even cancer.
OUR MISSION
To identify the molecules that mediate the beneficial effects of physical exercise on human health
Metabolism and Exercise
How do tissues such as muscle, liver, and fat produce, use, or store energy to function in health and during metabolic diseases?
Muscle mass & function
What are the pathways that maintain adequate muscle mass, strength and recovery that are dysregulated in many diseases?
Inter-organ communication
Identifying the molecular mediators of the beneficial effects of physical exercise, and developing as a novel generation of therapeutics.
