Lab Director:
Gary L Pierce, PhD, Professor, Department of Health and Human Physiology
Successfully defends her PhD dissertation! (April 2023)
Publishes paper in the Journal of Hypertension on sex-specific associations of central reservoir pressure with age and vascular remodeling. (February 2023)
Awarded predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association to study the effects of glycocalyx thickness on blood vessel function with aging. (December 2022)
Undergraduate student Jackson Ernst wins 1st place undergraduate poster and doctoral student Ginny Nuckols wins 2nd place graduate poster at the 2023 Iowa Physiological Society Conference. (November 2022)
See story on UIowa News on graduating PhD student Lyndsey DuBose "Iowa is the most magical place" (December 2019)
Dr. Seth Holwerda, postdoctoral fellow in the TVPL, was awarded a 2-year postdoctoral research fellowship from the American Heart Association starting Jan 1, 2017 (Dec 2016).
Elected as a Fellow of American Heart Association (April 2016)
Undergraduate student and TVPL member Madalyn Rasor receives 2015 STRIDE summer research fellowship from the American Physiological Society (April 20, 2015)
Dr. Scott Powers to give inaugural Carl V. Gisolfi Health & Human Physiology Seminar on Dec. 12 @1pm (Dec. 2014)
Gary Pierce gives Pilot & Feasibility Grant update seminar in Diabetes and Obesity Talk seminar series(August 18, 2014)
Dr. Gary Mitchell of the Framingham Heart Study to give 21st Annual Louis Alley Memorial Lecture, Sept. 19 @1pm (August 2013)
"Your finger's pulse holds the key to your heart's health" New technique from UI study uses finger's pulse to measure stiffness in the aorta. (Sept 4, 2013)