The Exercise Interest Group (EIG) will provide a forum where researchers, clinicians, and other interested persons from NIH and the extramural community can explore and promote epidemiological, clinical, and basic research on the effects of exercise in prevention and treatment of disease and disability. Specific goals of the EIG include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Stimulate inter-IC collaborations to develop innovative research programs/initiatives investigating the effects of habitual exercise in clinical medicine. 2. Stimulate interest from the outside scientific community to submit research applications to NIH investigating the effects of exercise in prevention and treatment of disease and disability. 3. Maintain a contemporary list of experts in exercise science to serve as potential NIH study section members and ad hoc grant reviewers. 4. Provide a forum for outside organizations with expertise in exercise science to provide input and feedback to NIH regarding important issues in this area. 5. Provide a forum for developing educational programs and lectures in exercise science to individuals in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area.

The EIG had its first meeting on January 11, 2012. The meeting was enthusiastically attended by over 50 NIH, HHS, USDA, and DOD staff in person and on the phone. 

The next meet will be

May 16, 2012 at 1pm at 

DESPR Conference Room Number is 5185.

National Institute of Drug Abuse

Neuroscience Center

6001 Executive Blvd

NIDA, Executive Boulevard

We are presently working on the minutes from the first meeting and developing the agenda for the second meeting. If you have any ideas or suggestions for the agenda please email the list serve.

Also feel free to invite other colleagues who might be interested to sign up on the list serve.

Simply send them this link.

More to come soon. Please contact Mark Roltsch for more information.

We’re like exercise "the physiological adaptations take some time to occur"