Biography:

Michael Delp, Ph.D., upon completion of his graduate work at the University of Georgia, was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz in Konstanz, Germany, and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, at the University of Missouri. 

Prior to coming to the University of Florida, Delp was a Professor and Vice Chair in the Division of Exercise Physiology at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and was a faculty member in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University.

Research Interests:

• • Understanding the effects of physical activity on the cardiovascular system and, more specifically, the microcirculation
• • The effects of aging and exercise training on vascular control mechanisms in skeletal muscle
• • The effects of simulated microgravity on microvascular control mechanisms in the brain, splanchnic tissue and skeletal muscle, and how these alterations contribute to the incidence of orthostatic hypotension
• • The possible coupling of diminished blood flow and microvascular endothelial function to bone loss associated with unloading, old age and type II diabetes