Home to four world-class laboratories, UIC’s Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition boasts a community of distinguished faculty who are actively engaged in collaborations with clinicians and scientists from across a range of fields: geriatrics, neurology, physiology, orthopedic surgery, epidemiology, biology and bioengineering.

• Treating Parkinson’s disease
• Sports medicine rehabilitation
• Preventing fall-related injuries
• Muscle injury prevention
• Stroke rehabilitation
• Understanding human arm movement
• Nutrition and aging
• Cancer prevention
• Vitamin B-6 metabolism
• Adult and pediatric obesity
• Clinical nutrition outcomes

• Brain and Sensory-Motor Control Laboratory web site
• Neural Control of Movement Laboratory web site
• Integrative Muscle Biology Laboratory
• Biomechanics Research Laboratories web site

Seminars
The department regularly hosts seminars throughout the academic year that feature the latest ideas from scholars at UIC and across the country.
An events schedule will be posted in late summer.

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