Health and Exercise MSc/MPhil/PhD

Home Postgraduate study Food Science, Health and Nutrition Health and ExerciseHealth and Exercise MSc/MPhil/PhDHow to apply »DeliveryFull-timeProgramme typeResearchStudy locationEdinburghEntry dateSeptemberOverviewResearchEntry requirementsFees & scholarships OverviewHuman health related research conducted in the School of Life Sciences is expanding, and concerned with evaluating; the ability of a wide range of substances, such as nanomaterials, to cause adverse health effects following human exposure, the mechanisms underlying the development of human disease and the role of nutrition as a means of prevention against human disease. Research activities in these areas are multidisciplinary and fall into three main themes: Nanomaterial Safety Assessment (Professor Vicki Stone) Human Nutrition and Molecular Toxicology (Professor Mihalis Panagiotidis) Metabolic and Cardiovascular Health (Dr Derek Ball) Research Research projects Research interests revolve around human physiology, nutrition and metabolism and endeavour to understand the physiological and metabolic responses to exercise in health and in disease. An example of this would be diabetes. In Scotland, 210,000 people are known to have diabetes and it is estimated that a further 87,000 have diabetes but are not aware. Exercise and diet both play a key role in the management of diabetes. Type 2 diabetics (those with the less serious but most prevalent form) have a two- to four-fold greater, risk of cardiovascular disease than non-diabetics. A sedentary lifestyle is a large, if not greater, risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease than diabetes, and exercise medicine research therefore has a pivotal role in these diseases of affluence, which are reaching substantial proportions in the developed world. We also have interests in hyperbaric physiology and we...