Dr. Vanderveen is a skeletal muscle biologist and exercise physiologist with a focus on the physiological and biochemical alterations of skeletal muscle that occur in response to exercise, disuse, and chronic diseases. He joined AcePre as a project manager in 2020. He’s directing projects to develop therapies aimed at improving cancer patient quality of life and survival through improving patient functionality. He provides expertise in functional research assessments combined with an understanding of the underlying mechanisms of cancer and chemotherapy-associated muscle wasting related to inflammation as well as mitochondrial quality and function.