Koopman laboratory: Clinical nutrition and muscle metabolism
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Dr René Koopman+61 3 8344 0243
Research Overview
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The goal of the Clinical Nutrition and Muscle Metabolism Laboratory is to increase the knowledge and understandings surrounding the regulation of skeletal muscle mass by amino acids, which will then enable us to define the most effective interventions to improve health and/or functional performance in acute and chronic metabolic disease.
Our research encompasses basic and translational programs, focusing mainly on nutritional interventions which can help to improve muscle metabolism in health and disease.
Our main areas of interest are muscle protein and carbohydrate metabolism in response to amino acids in health and disease, exercise metabolism, clinical nutrition, sepsis, and ageing.
Staff
Dr René Koopman, Head of Laboratory
Marissa Caldow, Postdoctoral Fellow
Francesca Alves, Honours student
Funding
2018-2020 Duchenne Parent Project. Evaluating a sulforaphane-based nutraceutical to alleviate gastrointestinal dysfunction in DMD
2019-2021 ARC Development Grant. Mechanisms of age - related changes in amino acid signaling in skeletal muscle
Research Projects
- Characterising the pathways responsible for ICU-acquired weakness
- Establishing the effect of glycine/serine metabolism on skeletal muscle cell growth
Faculty Research Themes
Infection and Immunology, Cancer
School Research Themes
Cancer in Biomedicine, Infection & Immunity, Molecular Mechanisms of Disease, Therapeutics & Translation
Key Contact
For further information about this research, please contact Head of Laboratory Dr René Koopman
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