Academic and Scientific Team

Alex’s work centres on understanding how exercise can prime the immune system to improve patient responses to treatment and reduce disease activity. Alex has worked with patients with type-1 diabetes, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, chronic kidney disease and obesity to examine the anti-inflammatory effects of exercise in these populations.

Dr. Barlow has more than 10 years’ experience using extracellular flux analysis and high resolution respirometry for assessing ‘real-time’ cellular metabolism in cells and tissues. His expertise covers in-depth knowledge of cellular bioenergetics with specific skills using Seahorse Extracellular Flux (XF) Analysers and Oroboros O2K high-resolution FluoRespirometry. He also has ...