Exercise has numerous effects on bodily functions and the current state-of-the-art knowledge in the field will be updated in a Cell symposium that starts today in Gothenburg, Sweden. Recent Cell Metabolism issue also deals with the topics in more detail also in a written form beforehand and looks like it will be an exciting meeting again with world-leading professors talking about their research and that of others.
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Based on scientific research performed over the last few decades it has become evident that exercise is pretty effective medicine in many clinical conditions. This fact is being promoted for instance by the leading Association in the field, American College of Sport Medicine.
Dr. Ilkka Heinonen holds an adjunct professorship in exercise and cardiovascular physiology at the Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine and works currently at the Turku PET Centre as a Collegium researcher of Turku Collegium of Science and Medicine at the University of Turku, Turku, Finland. He is also a visiting research scientist at the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has collaborated extensively with numerous international researchers and laboratories in Europe, USA and Asia.