Jeffrey W. Ryder , Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
jeffrey.ryder-1@nasa.gov

Jeffrey Ryder is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse (1993), Ball State University (1996) and the Karolinska Institute (2000). His graduate work and postdoctoral research at the Karolinska Institute and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas was focused on the intracellular signaling mechanisms that control skeletal muscle metabolism and contractile force development.

Dr. Ryder joined the USRA Division of Space Life Sciences in 2007 and serves as the Project Scientist for the Exercise Countermeasures Program at the NASA Johnson Space Center. The goal of the Exercise Countermeasures Program is to develop effective exercise methodologies and prescriptions to prevent the negative physiological effects of prolonged weightlessness.