Inactivity Investigator Awarded
International Honor Award

Frank Booth, PhD and director of the Health Activities Center at the University of Missouri, was recently awarded the Honor Award at the 13th International Conference of Biochemistry of Exercise at Olympic Park in Seoul, Korea.

Dr. Booth is a MU professor with joint appointments in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Biomedical Sciences Department, and the Department of Physiology in the School of Medicine. He is also a research investigator at the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center.

The Honor Award is given to a scientist who has made substantial contributions in research dealing with the biochemistry and nutrition of exercise.

Since its creation in 1968, the sponsoring organization, the Biochemistry of Exercise International Council of Physical Education and Sports Science, has been involved sharing cutting edge of exercise research. Its annual conference covers a broad area of biochemical and biomedical aspect of exercise.

Dr. Booth’s research emphasis involves how exercise signals are sensed and transduced and effect the expression of genes in skeletal muscle. These investigations are designed to provide, on the molecular level, evidence-based medicine for why sedentary lifestyle increases the risk of many unhealthy conditions. Skeletal muscle affects the health of the heart, adipose tissue, and by altering insulin resistance, blood hypertriglycidemia, blood HDL levels, and neuro-integrative pathways.

The MU Health Activity Center (http://hac.missouri.edu/index.html) is made up of researchers spanning the sciences at MU. They are dedicated to ending the 35 inactivity-related disorders. The Center uses medical research to determine the biological basis of how physical inactivity makes the body susceptible to chronic disease and disorders such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, hypertension, physical frailty, cancer, and arthritis.

The vision of the center is to make a national impact by reducing the human suffering that occurs when the body weakens and becomes diseased because of physical inactivity.

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