Dr. Armstrong presents at the ARTERY conference held in Split, Croatia and wins the Career Development lecture award.

New paper published in the Journal of Applied Physiology looking at vascular aging in young adult cancer survivors. In this study, cancer survivors did not exhibit accelerated arterial aging.

Armstrong MK, Alidadi M, Grewal U, Young T, Stroud A, Halyko M, et al. Anthracycline chemotherapy does not increase arterial stiffness or carotid intima-media thickness in young adult survivors of hematological malignancies. J Appl Physiol 2026; 141:494–501.

PhD student Mona and Undergraduate Tatum present their research at the North American ARTERY conference held at the University of Pennsylvania Smilow Center for Translational Research.

Jackie presenting her work conducted in the lab at the Department of Biology’s annual Undergraduate Research Conference.

New paper published in the Journal of Hypertension looking at the association between sleep duration and blood pressure. An objectively measured sleep duration of 7.5 h was associated with optimal SBP in both men and women.

Armstrong, Matthew K.; Bayly, Anna; Harmon, Kylie; Barreira, Tiago V.. Actigraphy-derived sleep duration and its association with blood pressure: NHANES 2011 to 2014. Journal of Hypertension 44(4):p 691-695, April 2026. | DOI: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000004260  

PhD student Mona presents her research comparing the agreement between different methods of measuring sleep duration at the MARC-ACSM conference. 

The lab goes to Philly. Undergraduate students Anna Bayly and Jackie Pengel present their research at the North American ARTERY Conference held at the University of Pennsylvania Smilow Center for Translational Research. 

Syracuse University, Department of Exercise Science students and faculty attend the Mid-Atlantic ACSM conference.

The Heart & Vascular Research Lab at Syracuse University is founded. Stay tuned for exciting research to come.