Healthy Research Volunteers

09/04/2025

Male volunteers, aged 65-75yrs, wanted for a research study looking at the optimum time to eat protein for maximising muscle growth after exercise. The study will involve 7 visits to our lab at the University of Nottingham and include a full health check, muscle strength and body composition measures. An inconvenience allowance will be paid for your time. For more details contact [email protected] or call 01158230248.

02/08/2024

Male volunteers, aged 65-75yrs, wanted for a research study looking at the optimum time to eat protein for maximising muscle growth after exercise. The study will involve 7 visits to our lab at the University of Nottingham and include a full health check, muscle strength and body composition measures. An inconvenience allowance will be paid for your time. For more details contact [email protected] or call 01158230248.

Volunteers wanted for research studies in The David Greenfield Human Physiology Unit in the University of Nottingham Medical School.

12/01/2023

Healthy male volunteers (18-35yrs) wanted for a study looking at the effect of overnight fasting on muscle synthesis. Inconvenience allowance paid. See link below for more details and how to sign up.

Recent research shows that timing of nutritional intake and daily periods of fasting may have important health effects. We have recently shown that extending habitual daily periods of fasting to 16 hours per day improves metabolism and the ability...

17/02/2020

Healthy volunteers wanted for a study looking at the effect of ankle fractures on muscle wasting. Inconvenience allowance paid. Contact Natalie for more details.

11/02/2020

Young research volunteers wanted for a study looking at the importance of breakfast in 8-12yr olds. Contact [email protected] for more details.

17/06/2016

Healthy volunteers wanted aged 11-17yrs for a study investigating how diet and exercise can help young people with Crohns disease. An inconvenience allowance is available. If you are interested in taking part or want to find out more, please discuss with a parent/guardian who can then contact us with any questions or to request further information:
Aline on 0115 8230248, [email protected] or [email protected]

26/04/2016

Healthy male volunteers (18-35yrs, BMI 18-25) are required to take part in a research study investigating the effects of muscle contraction on glucose uptake during 2 days of wearing a forearm cast. An inconvenience allowance is available for participation in this study. If you would like further information, or are interested in taking part, please contact Aisling on [email protected].

26/04/2016

**volunteers wanted**

We are investigating the effects of physical inactivity on insulin sensitivity in healthy male volunteers (18-35yrs, BMI 18-25). Volunteers will wear an arm cast for 16 days, during this time you will be required to visit our unit for MRI scans and measurements of glucose uptake. An inconvenience allowance is available for participation in this study. For further information, or if you are interested in taking part, please contact Aisling on [email protected].

12/11/2015

We are looking for healthy, non-smoking, middle-aged (40-60 yrs) male overweight/obese volunteers who have no history of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Purpose: The aim of this project is to investigate whether impairment in the action of insulin to promote the use of glucose in skeletal muscle (insulin resistance) as a result of oral ingestion of a liquid meal rich in saturated fat is linked to reduced ability of muscles to synthesise new protein in response to dietary protein intake, which ultimately may compromise maintenance of muscle size and quality of life. We will also test the hypothesis that partially replacing the saturated fat content in the liquid meal with fish oil derived fatty acids will ameliorate these negative effects.

What does the study involve? There will be 4 experimental visits to the laboratory, one lasting ~45 min (health screening visit) and the other three lasting ~8.5 hrs each. In each of those 3 visits (which will take place at least 1 week apart) the subjects will undergo a dietary intervention study requiring the consumption of oral meals with different fat content (see below) four hours before the ingestion of a drink containing milk protein and sugar. Regular small volume blood samples will be obtained during those trials.

During the main visits, all subjects will ingest a hot, chocolate-flavoured drink consisting of either the solid fat portion of palm oil (saturated fat trial), a similar drink in which part of the saturated fat content will be replaced with fish oil (fish oil trial), or water (control trial).

This study has been approved by the University of Nottingham Medical School Ethics Committee.

Contact for Further Information:
Dr Kostas Tsintzas,
Tel. (office) 0115 8230127, Email: [email protected]

Dr Francis Stephens,
Tel. (office) 0115 8230398, Email: [email protected]

20/10/2015

Healthy non-smoking males wanted between 40-60yrs, for a study looking into the effect of dietary fat on muscle protein synthesis. Inconvenience allowance available. Contact Kostas Tsintzas on 0115 8230127 or [email protected] for more details.

27/06/2014

Healthy males wanted between 18-28 yrs for a study looking at muscle repair following eccentric exercise. An inconvenience allowance is available. For more information please contact Colleen on [email protected] or text 'STUDY' plus your age to 07725 581283

27/05/2014

Healthy research volunteers wanted, male 18-35yrs who do NO exercise for a study looking at recovery from a bout of resistance exercise. Inconvenience allowance paid. Contact [email protected] for more details.