The Cade laboratory focuses on the use of exercise as a tool to study and an intervention to improve substrate (e.g. amino acid, glucose, fatty acid) metabolism, energetic and functional abnormalities in skeletal muscle, heart, adipose tissue, liver and brain. Conditions studied include: Barth syndrome, HIV-related metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, and obesity. The Cade laboratory is also interested in how the maternal metabolic environment during pregnancy affects in utero development and childhood metabolic disease.

Our lab employs clinical metabolism and exercise focused methodology (e.g. stable isotope tracers, exercise testing, body composition, imaging) in our research.

Duke Doctor of Physical Therapy Program