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Director: Ioannis S. Vrabas, Professor of Exercise Physiology
The Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry was founded in year 2000 at the School of Physical Education and Sports Science at Serres, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
The Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry constitutes an interdisciplinary entity involving researchers from the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science at Serres, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The lab aspires for the advancement of research in physiology and biochemistry of exercise to understand the function of the human body and the way that physical activity promotes health and well-being. We adopt an integrative approach, thus our research builds on expertise in exercise physiology, biochemistry, nutrition and medicine applied to both humans and animals. We believe in big-picture thinking and cross-functional biological knowledge to create and implement integrative solutions to complex biological problems such as obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, muscle weakness and aging. Over the years, researchers from the laboratory have used a range of tools in an effort to understand these health-related issues. Physiological, pharmacological, nutritional, biochemical and molecular tools have been applied combining reductionist and whole-body approaches to physiological problems. This has led to the development of knowledge spanning from biochemical interactions to epidemiology and population health. An example includes how antioxidant supplementation affects redox homeostasis at cellular level and how this may be translated to modified muscle function and whole body performance, and even up to policy making. It is in this dialectics between molecular and physiological sciences that biological progress is achieved.
For more information regarding the research that has been conducting at the Laboratory of Exercise Physiology and Biochemistry, please visit laboratory's website.
