Luke I. Szweda, PhD, FAAAS

Luke I. Szweda, PhD, joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in 2024 as a professor in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Cardiology and member of the Sarver Heart Center. Dr. Szweda received his doctoral degree under the mentorship of UCLA biochemist Daniel E. Atkinson, PhD, and performed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of biochemist Earl R. Stadtman, PhD, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He then established an independent research laboratory at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he served as an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics from 1995 to 2004. The Szweda laboratory relocated to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City in 2005. After serving as professor and chair of the Aging and Metabolism Research Program from 2006 to 2016, Dr. Szweda joined the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He was a professor in the Division of Cardiology from 2017 to 2024 prior to arriving at the University of Arizona. His laboratory studies how changes in cardiac metabolism induced by nutrient and energetic stress contribute to heart disease. He has served as an editorial board member of the journal Circulation since 2016, and has been a member and chair of multiple NIH and American Heart Association study sections.