Senior Research Scientist

Marcas Bamman, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist and Director of Healthspan, Resilience, and Performance Research at IHMC. He leads and fosters translational human research ranging from aging and chronic diseases to elite performers, and from biological underpinnings to clinical outcomes supported by federal funding since the 1990s. In 2019 he ranked third nationally in National institutes of Health funding among more than 821 investigators in cell biology and today at IHMC he continues to lead a portfolio of clinical and translational research supported by the U.S. Department of Defense and NIH, with programs focused primarily on stress resilience, exercise as regenerative rehabilitation, and mechanisms of inter-individual response heterogeneity.

Prior to joining IHMC in 2020, during a 25-year career at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), he was Professor in the School of Medicine, founding Director of the UAB Center for Exercise Medicine, and UAHSF Endowed Professor in Regenerative and Translational Medicine. He is now a Professor Emeritus in the UAB School of Medicine. He served as Director of the NIH National Rehabilitation Research Resource to Enhance Clinical Trials (REACT) and Director of the NIH National Medical Rehabilitation Research Resource Network Coordinating Center. He was Clinical Center PI and Executive Committee member for the NIH Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC), is an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Fellow, former ACSM Board of Trustees member, and he chaired the 2021 ACSM World Congress on the Basic Science of Exercise in Regenerative Medicine.

He has served on more than 95 grant review panels and site visit teams, Associate Editor of three peer-reviewed journals, and has published more than 180 research papers with a current H-index of 65.