2024 Miller Lab
Dr. Benjamin Miller is the recipient of the 2025 Adolph Distinguished Lectureship award from the American Physiological Society’s Environmental & Exercise Physiology Section
This award is one of the highest awards given. It recognizes an eminent research scholar who has made meritorious contributions to environmental, thermal, and applied physiology and is an outstanding public speaker.
The Miller Lab was well represented at the 2024 AGE conference in Madison, Wisconsin, with notable accomplishments
Postdocs Jordan Fuqua, Aga Borowik, Colleen O’Reilly, and Paulo Mesquita, along with BioLab student Mariola Gimla, presented posters of their current research. Jordan Fuqua was selected to give a 1-minute oral Poster Pitch presentation and Mariola Gimla was selected to give a 3-minute oral Trainee Data Blitz presentation, both highlighting their posters/projects. Miller and Postdoc Matt Bubak chaired a session titled, “Role of Systemic Environment in Aging”, in which Matt Bubak also gave an oral presentation of his research.
Dr. Miller was named President of the American Aging Association (AGE) for 2024-2025
The American Aging Association has named Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist Benjamin Miller, Ph.D., as its new president. The 54-year-old organization, also known as AGE, consists of scientists and physicians dedicated to research on aging. Miller is a national and international leader in studies of how to maintain muscle mass and function as we age. He focuses on interventional approaches using exercise and compounds such as the diabetes drug metformin as potential ways to slow the process. An exercise physiologist by training, Miller joined OMRF from Colorado State University in 2018. At OMRF, he leads the foundation’s Aging & Metabolism Research Program and holds the G.T. Blankenship Endowed Chair in Aging Research. As part of his presidency, he will organize the 2025 AGE meeting in Anchorage, Alaska.