- Musculoskeletal repair and frailty
- Diabetes, obesity, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, vascular disease
- Pancreatic disease, & gastrointestinal surgery
- Reproductive biology: uterine physiology, polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis
- Paediatric pharmacology:drug efficacy & safety in children, non-invasive methods of studying drug metabolism
- Rehabilitation & ageing: neuro-rehab, aids & devices and multidisciplinary work in complex severe disability
- Medical education research group: leading UK research on graduate entry medicine and prosecuting local research to provide sound evidence for development and change in the Nottingham GEM programme
Current recent research project titles
- Access and equity in genetic services: what can we learn from new national screening for common inherited disorders
- Metabolic & haemodynamic interactions between insulin resistance, endothelial function and cardiovascular disease
- Unlicensed and off label drug use in children
- Endometrial ion channels as determinants of fertility
- Mechanisms underlying the electrical quiescence of pregnancy
- Pancreatic Disease
- Metabolic aspects of peritoneal dialysis
- Gene Networks Regulating Muscle Protein Degradation
- Assessing needs and developing services for people with chronic and progressive disability
- Sensitivity and responsiveness of human muscle protein turnover to essential amino acids in the elderly and patients with chronic disease resulting in sarcopenia
- Human whole body fuel and protein metabolism, especially that in skeletal muscle and bone
- Chronic kidney disease from paediatric to elderly and with early stage CKD, through to dialysis requiring CKD 5
- Angiogenesis pathways in diabetic microvascular disease and peripheral vascular disease
- Cold intolerance and Raynauds Phenomenon