Reid Hayward- University of Northern Colorado
This is the first in our series of blogs about Dr. Reid Hayward of the University of Northern Colorado . Dr. Hayward works with the Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute (RMCRI) to investigate the protective cardiac effects of exercise on chemotherapy patients who are undergoing clinical treatment at the RMCRI. The RMCRI has shown that chemotherapy patients who exercise endure the cardiac stress of doxyrubicin and other anthracycline chemotherapeutic agents much better than those who do not have exercise as a part of their treatment plan.
As Dr. Hayward says, “The RMCRI subjects are humans, mine are rats.” His lab studies the effects of doxorubicin (DOX) on the cardiovascular system of rats, to investigate what systems, and what molecular components are at work as exercise increases the odds of survival for the patients of RMCRI.
Dr. Hayward investigates morphology and physiology and most recently started to look at the molecular basis for this rehabilitation by studying the effects of exercise on multi-drug resistant protein knockout rats from SAGE™ Labs .
