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The Mount Sinai Physiolab is a premier, evidence-based health and wellness lab that has been featured in numerous local, regional, and national media and professional outlets.
The exercise program that Ryan W. Walker, PhD, MS, Director, Mount Sinai Physiolab, and the Mount Sinai Human Metabolism and Physiology Lab, has designed for the prestigious XPRIZE Healthspan Competition (a global $101 million scientific award that a Mount Sinai team is participating in) is featured in Business Insider. Dr. Walker is also Director, Translational Research Core, NYR-Diabetes Research Center, and Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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Dr. Walker and the NYC-Vita XPRIZE Healthspan team are featured in Time magazine.
The New York Regional Diabetes Research Center receives $10 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health.
In a special episode of The Vitals: Healthspan Explained podcast, Dr. Walker discusses the importance of exercise to reduce frailty risk with Fred Chau-Yang Ko, MD, as part of a special podcast miniseries.
Dr. Walker and Taylor Stein, MS, RD, CDN, Manager and Graduate Assistant, Mount Sinai Physiolab, Registered Dietitian, Department of Environmental Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine, attend a City Pickle: “Ask the Expert” event expo at the Wollman Rink in Central Park to share information on healthy exercise and nutrition.
Drew Dorsey, MS, former Mount Sinai Physiolab exercise physiologist, attends the 2025 Norman Fleischer NYC Regional Diabetes Symposium to share the science behind the Physiolab assessments.
The Physiolab is featured on Good Morning America as our former lab director takes Mara Schiavocampo through a 24-hour energy expenditure assessment at the lab.
Dr. Walker discussed nutrition and our gut microbiome with Mount Sinai’s Institute for Exposomic Research: Health Lunchtime Chat Series.
The Physiolab has also been featured in multiple Mount Sinai Today episodes covering a broad range of topics relevant to health:
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Research and Volunteer Opportunities
The Physiolab is always eager to hear from those interested in our work. Please feel free to reach out to learn more about present opportunities in the lab.
Participate in Research Studies
The Physiolab is not directly involved in research studies, but Dr. Walker has multiple ongoing clinical trials that may be of interest. Please visit the links below to find out more.
We are looking for healthy men and women, ages 25-45, to join a research study about how added sugar affects the bacteria in your gut.
We are looking for healthy men and women ages 25-45 to participate in a research study on personalized weight loss programs.
The NYC-Vita Healthspan Trial is an expanded version of a trial that has already been completed NCT07058974. The new trial is expected to open at the end of 2026. Once the study design has been finalized and the trial has received approval from the Institutional Review Board and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, we will provide additional information.