Dr Emma Watson

Dr Emma Watson

Lecturer in Muscle Biology and Sarcopenia

Emma began her PhD in 2006 when Leicester first started to research the benefits of exercise in for people with CKD which was investigating the effects of walking exericse upon skeletal muscle . After completing her PhD in 2010, she remained with the team and ran studies investigating the benefits of resistance exercise and then combined resistance and aerobic exercise upon skeletal muscle, systematic inflammation, physical function and quality of life. In 2014 she was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from Kidney Research UK to investigate the mechanisms of muscle wasting in CKD which she completed in 2018. Emma is now a lecturer in muscle biology and sarcopenia at the University of Leicester and has an on-going programme of work that includes the contribution of aberrant microRNA expression on muscle wasting, the role of exosomes in muscle-heart cross talk and the effect of diabetic weight loss drugs on skeletal muscle health.