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.