Affiliation: Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Dr. Kleiton Silva is an assistant professor of biomedical sciences at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. He earned his doctoral degree from the Federal University of Sao Paulo in 2014, where he studied how endurance or resistance exercise regulates renal and muscle metabolism in a rat model of diabetes. Dr. Silva began his postdoctoral training at the University of Missouri. There, he explored how autophagy regulates muscle degeneration in rodent and porcine models of heart failure. His current research program focuses on uncovering the molecular mechanisms underlying aging muscle degeneration. Specifically, his lab focuses on the autophagy-lysosome system as a key mechanism regulating the loss of muscle mass and function with age.