Niels Ortenblad

Niels Ørtenblad (NØ) (Male) is Professor and head of research of the Muscle Physiology and Biomechanics Research Unit at the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark as well as Adjunct Professor at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Adjungated Professor at University of British Columbia, Canada and affiliated to Department of Health Sciences, Swedish Winter Sports Research Centre, Mid Sweden University. He is a member of the Editorial Board for Frontiers in Skeletal Muscle Physiology, Editorial Board of Journal of Science in Sport and Exercise and reviewer at several high impact physiological journals and recurrently serve son national and international academic application and grant review panels.

His research career has been focused on the role of energy turn-over in cell function, with special emphasis on the muscle cell. This has been studied in the field of exercise and muscle physiology, aging, muscle metabolism and cell signaling, NØs research group and close collaborators and colleagues in the field, have been successful in demonstrating and that energy compartmentalization, may be a significant step to elucidate the mechanisms, which integrate basic metabolism with cellular function.

He attempts to use research models from the integrated whole body to the organelle and protein level. The ultimate goal with my research is to understand mechanisms in the various glycogen and metabolic associated diseases in cells as skeletal- and heart muscle as well as the brain. The research has significant implications for our understanding of basic cell function in general and skeletal muscles in particular and provides the base for more effective strategies in preventing metabolic associated diseases.