Members

Neurovascular Physiology Lab

Indiana University

The NVPL takes a broad approach to preventing and treating cardiovascular disease, studying blood flow, vessel function, and the neural pathways that control blood pressure in both healthy adults and patient populations.

A central focus is understanding how everyday health behaviors — exercise, diet, and sleep — shape cardiovascular health, with an eye toward translating that work into real-world prevention strategies.

Vascular Stress Physiology and Resilience Lab

University of Wisconsin - Madison

The VSPR Lab studies how psychosocial and environmental stressors affect blood vessel health across the lifespan, combining vascular physiology with cellular and mitochondrial biology to uncover what drives cardiometabolic disease risk in high-risk populations. Using tools like live-cell imaging and mitochondrial phenotyping, the lab traces how stress and other circulating factors act on endothelial and mitochondrial function — work that connects everyday biological stress to long-term vascular and metabolic disease.

Integrative Blood Pressure Control Lab

Virginia Commonwealth University

The IBPC Lab studies how aging and the accompanying shifts in sex hormones — particularly declining testosterone — reshape blood pressure regulation. Our work spans neural control of blood pressure, salt-sensitive hypertension, and vascular and kidney function, using both observational studies and controlled hormone manipulation to isolate cause from correlation. A current focus includes how androgen deprivation therapy in men with prostate cancer affects cardiovascular risk, offering a unique window into how changing hormone status drives blood pressure dysfunction later in life.