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Nadia Agha is a Lecturer in the Kinesiology Department at Rice University, joining the faculty in 2023. She teaches Exercise Physiology and holds a BS (Kinesiology-Exercise Science) and PhD (Kinesiology with an emphasis in Exercise Physiology) from the University of Houston, alongside a postdoctoral fellowship in muscle physiology at Baylor College of Medicine. Her research focuses on the therapeutic applications of exercise in diseases such as cancer, neuromuscular disorders, and diabetes, with a particular interest in immune system regulation and spaceflight-related health challenges.
Dr. Agha has collaborated with NASA on studies assessing exercise's role in astronaut immune health during spaceflight and investigated exercise as an adjuvant therapy for cancer and immune-related treatments. Her work also explores excitation-contraction coupling abnormalities in muscular diseases. She is affiliated with the American College of Sports Medicine, International Society of Exercise and Immunology (ISEI), and the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society.
With over 25 peer-reviewed publications and numerous conference presentations, her contributions span interdisciplinary areas at the intersection of exercise science, immunology, and clinical medicine.
