Lisa Lesniewski, PhD

Director, CVRTI Vascular and Genetics，
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Geriatrics

Dr. Lisa Lesniewski is a Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of Utah. She received her PhD in kinesiology from Texas A&M University and performed postdoctoral training in metabolism at the University of California San Diego and vascular aging research at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

She co-directs the Translational Vascular Physiology Laboratory and is an investigator in both the Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute at the University of Utah and the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center at the Salt Lake City Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center.

Her overarching research interest is in elucidating the mechanisms of age-related vascular and metabolic dysfunction and disease. Using cellular and animal models, her current research seeks to understand the interactions of immune cells and senescence in the metabolic impairments that accompany advancing age, as well as to elucidate the role of the endothelial glycocalyx in age-related vascular dysfunction and disease.