Exercise Medicine Division Chief, Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Exercise Medicine, Genomics

www.perc.uci.edu/

2021 - UCI SOM Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Clinical Research Award

Shlomit Radom-Aizik PhD, Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Executive Director UC Irvine Health Pediatric Exercise and Genomics Research Center is working to advance exercise medicine through clinical and laboratory research using genomic and epigenetic approaches, and to promote and foster community partnerships to encourage physical activity across the lifespan. She completed her PhD dissertation in the Functional Genomics Unit at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University and received her PhD degree in Physiology and Pharmacology from Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her research focuses on the intersection of functional genomics and exercise physiology with the goal to uncover the molecular mechanisms of both acute and long-term health effects of exercise and training in health and disease. She is currently a principal investigator (PI), on two multiple PI NIH grants: 1) Transforming Exercise Testing and Physical Activity Assessment in Children: New Approaches to Advance Clinical Translational Research in Child Health. And 2) for the pediatric clinical center in the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC), which is a nation-wide consortium to study the molecular maps in response to exercise.

1) A Pediatric Clinical Center for Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity (MoTrPAC): Towards a Molecular Map of Exercise in the Pediatric Origins of Health Across the Lifespan NIH U01AR071158 2016 - 2025 Role: Principal Investigator (mPI). 2) Transforming Exercise Testing and Physical Activity Assessment in Children: New Approaches to Advance Clinical Translational Research in Child Health NIH U01TR002004 2018 - 2024 Role: Principal Investigator (mPI). 3) Interacting mechanisms of sleep and aerobic fitness: Implications for health in the growing child. NIH R01HL153807. 2021-2025 Role: Co-I. 4) The Pro-Inflammatory Effects of Acute Exercise in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia. NIH RO1 2017-2024. Role: Co-I. Lead researcher on UCI site.

ACSM, NASPEM, ECSS & ISEI

Executive Director, Pediatric Exercise and Genomics Research Center

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Last updated
06/11/2024