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Physiology

Contact: Michael W. Miller PhD, Chair
Location: 3217 Weiskotten Hall, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY 13210
Phone: 315 464-4413
Website: Physiology Program

This program awards:

  • PhD in Physiology
  • MS in Physiology

The graduate program in Physiology is designed for students interested in the integrated function of living systems.

Major research areas include:

BioChem
  • Musculoskeletal Science
  • Pulmonary Physiology
  • Endocrinology
  • Exercise Science
  • Neurophysiology

Since a number of the Physiology faculty hold primary appointments in clinical departments, the Physiology program is an ideal vehicle for students looking to apply basic science research techniques to clinically relevant biomedical problems such as bone tumors, diabetes, osteoporosis, kidney disease and lung disease.

Visit the Program site: PHYSIOLOGY

What's the
SUNY Upstate Difference?

Miller with student

Michael W. Miller, PhD, Chair of the Neuroscience and Physiology Department, is an internationally known developmental neurobiologist.

He has been focusing his research on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a condition which affects as many as 2% of all live births in the U.S. Miller has been studying how alcohol affects key regulators of early development, e.g., the production of new neurons from stem cells and the movement of the young neurons into their permanent residences.

One of the vulnerable periods that Miller has been exploring is during the first month of human fetal development, a time when the basic body plan of the fetus is established.