Rate My Professor Daniel March

Dr Daniel March is a Lecturer in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Leicester, part of the College of Life Sciences. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy and re-joined the institution in May 2021 as part of the Joint Education Programme with Chongqing Medical University. Prior to this appointment, he worked as a Research Associate at the York Trials Unit, University of York. From 2015 to 2021, Dr March served as a Research Associate at the University of Leicester, where he coordinated the research team delivering the NIHR-funded CYCLE-HD randomised controlled trial. This trial assessed the effects of a six-month programme of intradialytic cycling on survival and hospitalisations in people requiring haemodialysis, with five-year follow-up data published in 2025.

Dr March's research specializations encompass systematic reviews and meta-analyses for evidence synthesis, trialling interventions to improve outcomes in chronic diseases, particularly chronic kidney disease (CKD). He employs novel meta-analytic techniques to examine blood pressure medication effects in diabetes and CKD patients and investigates non-pharmacological interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk in CKD. His key publications include 'Clinical practice guideline exercise and lifestyle in chronic kidney disease' (2022, BMC Nephrology), 'Effects of intradialytic cycling exercise on exercise capacity, quality of life, physical function and cardiovascular measures in adult haemodialysis patients: a systematic review' (2018, Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation), 'A randomized controlled trial to investigate the effects of intra-dialytic cycling on left ventricular mass' (2021, Kidney International), 'Novel cardiac nuclear magnetic resonance method for noninvasive assessment of myocardial fibrosis in hemodialysis patients' (2016, Kidney International), and 'Lifestyle interventions delivered by eHealth in chronic kidney disease: A scoping review' (2024). With over 1,600 citations across 85 publications, his work significantly influences exercise physiology and renal medicine. He teaches the module BS3082 Cardiovascular and Renal Precision Medicine.