Nathaniel Szewczyk, PhD
Education:
- Space Life Sciences (Postdoctoral Fellow), NASA Ames Research Center, 2003
- Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (PhD), University of Pittsburgh, 2002
- Biology and Psychology (BS), Carnegie Mellon University, 1993
Certifications:
- Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P), 1991
Expertise:
- Muscle
- Mitochondria
- Proteostasis
- C. elegans
- Disease models
- Spaceflight
- Aging
- Physiology
- Molecular Medicine
- -omics/Data Science
- Medical Education
Summary of Work:
My research focuses on muscle health. We study how genes, nutrients, toxins, and the environment combine to promote healthy and unhealthy muscles. Our work uses animal models such as worms (C. elegans) and rodents (mice and rats) as well as human subjects. Examples of on-going projects include understanding the role of sulphur in mitochondrial diseases; discovering novel diagnostics and treatments for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD); understanding and countering neuromuscular decline with age; understanding and countering neuromuscular decline with spaceflight; understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying loss of muscle function with lack of use.
Links:
View My Work in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/nathaniel.szewczyk.1/bibliography/public/
View My LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-szewczyk-5809b415a/
View My Work in ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nathaniel-Szewczyk
View My Work in GoogleScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gE2gfdsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao