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David W. Russ, P.T., Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor in the Division of Physical Therapy,
School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences |
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 Dr. Russ is an assistant professor of physical
therapy in the School of Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences. He received his
doctorate from the University of Delaware and completed post-doctoral training at the
University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has expertise in skeletal muscle
physiology—particularly as it relates to muscle metabolism and calcium handling—and
his Laboratory for Integrative Muscle Biology uses a translational approach to
studying muscle physiology that involves both human and animal studies. Specifically,
Dr. Russ has expertise in electrical muscle stimulation and evoked-force production,
magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study muscle metabolism, and sophisticated cell
and molecular techniques to study muscle proteinprotein interactions. Prior to coming
to Ohio University, Dr. Russ was a faculty member at the University of
Maryland-Baltimore where his laboratory was funded by a Claude D. Pepper Center Pilot
Grant from the NIH. Since arriving at Ohio University in 2008, he has served as
co-investigator on NIH grants. He has published more than 35 scholarly articles.
Dr. Russ’s animal studies primarily investigate protein-protein interactions
involved with the excitation-contraction coupling process (the series of events in
skeletal muscles that convert an electrical signal into mechanical force generation).
The goal of this work is to determine the mechanisms of impaired muscle quality
associated with aging. His applied human research also investigates the mechanisms of
impaired muscle function in older adults. For this, Dr. Russ obtains a skeletal muscle
tissue sample via an outpatient biopsy procedure, which he then subjects to
biochemical and protein analyses. Additionally, Dr. Russ is working to develop
innovative approaches to increase muscle mass using neuromuscular electrical
stimulation.
To view his publications please link to
PubMed.
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