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Research
BPK facilitates the pursuit of research excellence and fosters a culture of collaboration and support for researchers. BPK is also the proud home of the Kids Brain Health Network, a Network Centre of Excellence of Canada.
Featured research projects
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Our Laboratory for Quantitative Exercise Biology helped a patient manage a rare illness through programmed exercise
Our Laboratory for Quantitative Exercise Biology helped a patient manage a rare illness through programmed exercise. Learn More
Research areas
The BPK research program has been characterized as having 5 pillars of strength: cardiovascular physiology, chronic diseases, neuromechanics, environmental physiology and neuroscience. The benefits of this clustering of research interests are exemplified by shared infrastructure and regular exchanges on research progress. Increasingly, BPK faculty members work at the interdisciplinary areas of overlap between these fields. Our faculty comprises anatomists, biochemists, biologists, biomechanists, biophysicists, engineers, ergonomists, kinesiologists, neuroscientists, physicians, and physiologists. We apply our knowledge to study human movement, structure and function throughout the life cycle, in health and disease, in benign and extreme environments, at work, at home, at sports and at play. Now BPK is the proud home to the , a Network Centres of Excellence of Canada, the first NCE at SFU.
Not only are we one of the strongest Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology programs in Canada, but we also have a strong commitment to research and are well funded. Our educational goals are to impart a sound knowledge base and to promote critical thinking, problem solving, research, and technical and communication skills appropriate to the field through our undergraduate, graduate and continuing studies programs.
Cardiovascular Physiology
Focus on heart and vascular function at the molecular, cellular, and systems levels, with applications to congenital heart disease, disease prevention and drug design.
Neuromechanics
Neuromechanics integrates the fields of biomechanics and neurophysiology to understand human movement in health and disease, with applications to rehabilitation medicine, injury prevention and aging.
Environmental Physiology
Environmental Physiology takes an integrative systems approach to understanding whole body human physiology as a function of changes in environmental conditions.
Chronic Diseases
Multidisciplinary training in the prevention of cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, from individual physiology to the broader scope of community health and disease treatment.
Neuroscience
Neuroscience spans a wide spectrum, ranging from the neurophysiology of motor control, cellular properties of neurons and neuronal circuitry, the pathophysiology of degenerative neurological diseases and the molecular biophysics underlying membrane properties of neurons.