Rate My Professor Leigh Breen

The research of Professor Breen centres on elucidating the cellular mechanisms of skeletal muscle plasticity and developing targeted exercise, nutritional, and pharmaceutical interventions to optimize muscle adaptation, function, and performance in contexts of health, ageing, and disease. His studies have advanced understanding of how ageing, disease, and inactivity influence muscle protein turnover, the molecular signalling networks that support muscle health, and the potential of lifestyle interventions to rejuvenate muscle across the lifecourse. Current projects explore muscle deterioration in chronological and biological ageing, countermeasures to disuse atrophy, mechanisms of muscle atrophy in chronic inflammatory diseases like liver disease and cancer, and adaptive responses to novel dietary protein sources. With over 100 peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals, Professor Breen earned the Young Investigator of the Year Award at the 2011 European Congress for Sports Sciences. He is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences, has successfully supervised five PhD students and eleven MSc by Research students, and engages in interdisciplinary collaborations supported by funding from research councils, charities, healthcare bodies, and industry partners.