Prof. Philip J. Atherton is a Professor of Clinical, Metabolic & Molecular Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. He is also a member of the UK Medical Research Council (MRC) Population and Systems Medicine (PSMB) Board grant panel. The current direction of his work involves the combining of detailed molecular physiology with the application of carbon/deuterium stable isotope methodologies and more recently, the integration of OMIC (genomic/metabolomic) techniques to discover predictors of, and the basis for, the musculoskeletal decline in aging and disease.