Nicholas Thomas Broskey

Dr. Nicholas Broskey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University. His research bridges translational science and clinical practice, focusing on skeletal muscle physiology and mitochondrial biology to address metabolic diseases through exercise interventions.

Dr. Broskey's work explores how maternal health during pregnancy programs infants' metabolic health outcomes, utilizing mesenchymal stem cell models to study developmental programming of obesity and diabetes. He combines clinical expertise in exercise prescription and metabolic assessment (e.g., hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp, indirect calorimetry) with basic science techniques to evaluate mitochondrial content and function.

His recent publications highlight maternal exercise effects on offspring metabolism, mitochondrial heterogeneity in racial health disparities, and bioenergetic adaptations in cancer cells. Grants from NIH, Brody Brothers' Foundation, and Duke University support his research on maternal-fetal metabolic programming and exercise transducers.

• Scientific Awards
  • Outstanding Researcher or Creative Activity Award 2023-2024
  • Early Career Grant Challenge 2018
  • Endowed Postdoctoral Fellowship 2015
  • Best Poster 2012

Dr. Broskey actively serves on editorial boards for Clinical Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology (2023) and International Journal of Sports Medicine (2022).