Montgomery Laboratory

The Montgomery Lab also has a strong interest in human health and climate change, and co-directs the Wellcome Trust-funded Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change.

• The use of genetic strategies (from candidate gene-environment interaction studies to those of evolutionary selection)
• The use of 'big data' and artificial intelligence/ machine learning to address clinical management
• Adaptation to hypoxia
• The regulation of muscle mass and wasting, especially in the context of critical illness
• The measurement of total circulating haemoglobin mass and plasma volume in health and disease
• Human skeletal remodelling
• The biology of ketones, with a special emphasis on neuroprotection
• Nutritional approaches in critical illness
• New approaches to treating muscle disease
• Assessment of hydration status, and management of fluid balance in hospital settings.