Laurie J. Goodyear - Deputy Chair

Laurie Goodyear received her Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Springfield College, Massachusetts, in 1981, and subsequently received an M.Sc. in Exercise Physiology from The University of South Carolina (in 1983) and her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from The University of Vermont (in 1989). During her post-doctoral training, she worked as a Research Fellow in Medicine at The University of Vermont during the years 1989-1990, before
taking up a Research Fellowship in Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, and working as a Research Fellow (Section on Metabolism) at the Elliott P. Joslin Research Laboratory, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston (1990-1992). Her first academic appointment was as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1992, followed by promotions to Assistant Professor In Medicine (1995-2001), and then as an Associate Professor In Medicine (2002 onwards). She has published well over 100 papers and received many awards and honours, including the President's Lecture (in 2000) and the Gollnick Lecture (in 2002) from the American College of Sports Medicine, and was the 2002 Alumna of the Year (of the School of Public Health, University of South Carolina). Her present research focuses on elucidating mechanisms of signalling within muscle cells during exercise, and examining how these mechanisms are responsible for the regulation of many metabolic processes, including glucose uptake and both glycogen synthesis and degradation.