Musculoskeletal Aging & Metabolism Laboratory

03/03/2025

Looking for participants aged 55-80 years old interested in participating in a research study on healthy aging!

link: https://konopkalab.medicine.wisc.edu/clinical-trials/everlast/

Click the link to learn more!

05/05/2023

AFAR congratulates inaugural Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Award in Aging Biology and Geroscience recipient Adam Konopka, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. This grant will support the research project, "Interaction of Rapamycin and Exercise on Healthspan." Learn more here.

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04/22/2023

Hevolution and AFAR award eighteen three-year grants of $375,000 each to support early career investigators, a total of $6.75 million.

11/11/2021

Join the #1 Hospital in Wisconsin and in our opinion, the #1 Unit. Our colleagues in the Clinical Research Unit at UW-Hospital are looking for a .

We cannot speak highly enough of these and hope you consider joining their team! https://bit.ly/3DaWGtf

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07/01/2021

Impactful work by our colleagues in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology at UW-Madison.

GROUNDBREAKING PHASE 3 ALZHEIMER’S CLINICAL TRIAL AT UW IN NEED OF VOLUNTEERS.

https://bit.ly/3jw7V8L

UW is recruiting for a study testing an investigational treatment that aims to help prevent the earliest memory loss from Alzheimer’s disease.

05/27/2021

Our colleagues are doing some amazing work!

As its name implies, center investigators will focus on how physical environment and social conditions intersect to influence an individual’s health.

05/15/2021

Excited to be a part of the biology of aging program at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases have seemingly little in common.

04/27/2021

Check out our work presented by grad student Christian Elliehausen at the 2021 American Physiological Society Experimental Biology meeting. In a model of age-related osteoarthritis, we show that dietary may have some un-wanted side effects on skeletal muscle mitochondria and osteoarthritis pathology.
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Rockville, Md. (April 27, 2021)—New research to be presented this week virtually at the American Physiological Society’s (APS) annual meeting at Experimental Biology 2021 explores the positive and negative effects of lifespan-extending drugs on mitochondrial function and age-related osteoarthrit...

04/19/2021

Congrats to Dennis Minton! Earlier this year, his abstract was selected for oral presentation at Orthopedic Research Society 2021 Annual Meeting! Keep up the good work Dennis!
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04/08/2021

We've moved! Last Fall, most of our laboratory moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to continue our work on aging. We have one dedicated student remaining at UIUC to finish an ongoing clinical trial and masters degree. Our goal is to provide more frequent updates about our work and those of our colleagues. Please feel free to continue to follow along!

05/12/2020

Learn about symptoms and treatment for osteoarthritis, sometimes called degenerative joint disease, and the most commonly affected areas, such as knees and hips.

04/30/2020

Last year our paper "Metformin inhibits mitochondrial adaptations to aerobic exercise training in older adults" was one of the top downloaded from Aging Cell. Nice to know our research is having an impact. https://bit.ly/35gdsqS
Department of Kinesiology & Community Health at Illinois,
Translational Research on Aging and Chronic Disease Laboratory, Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University