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Improving accessibility of bone density scanning for wheelchair users living with muscle wasting conditions
Dr Jarod Wong will lead a study involving people living with muscle wasting conditions and healthcare workers to improve the accessibility and performance of bone density scanning to make monitoring weak bones more straightforward.
Dietary supplements as a potential new treatment for mitochondrial myopathies
Professor Rita Horvath and her team from the University of Cambridge will test the use of a dietary supplement as a potential new treatment for people with mitochondrial myopathies.
Diagnosis of primary mitochondrial myopathies using MRI to measure how muscles use oxygen
Dr Robert Pitceathly, University College London, will use a special MRI technique to measure how muscles use oxygen in people with primary mitochondrial myopathy. Ultimately this approach should help diagnose primary mitochondrial myopathy, which has so far proved to be challenging.
New concepts for the treatment of mitochondrial myopathies
This PhD studentship, to be supervised by Professor Rita Horvath at the University of Cambridge, will explore whether controlling stress signals and taking nutritional supplements (by increasing the intake of particular protein building blocks, known as amino acids) can have a positive effect on treating non-reversible mitochondrial myopathies.