Dr. Swank has been a member of the RPI faculty since 2005. He heads a dynamic, multidisciplinary laboratory of students, staff, and post-docs. His laboratory investigates how muscle is able to power an amazingly wide variety of locomotory tasks and modulate heart function.He received his Postdoctoral Fellow,from University of Vermont, 2005,in Muscle Mechanics and in 2000 Postdoctoral Fellow from San Diego State University,in Drosophila Genetics.He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Pennsylvania, 1995 in Physiology and done his B.S. from University of Rochester, 1990,in Biology.

Heart Disease, Muscle Disease, Cardiac Physiology