Rate My Professor Wendy Kohrt

Kohrt’s research specializations encompass age-related changes in metabolism, sex steroids, and body composition, particularly those triggered by the menopausal transition, skeletal adaptation to exercise, calcium homeostasis during exercise, molecular transducers of physical activity, bioenergetic and cardiometabolic consequences of gonadal function loss, ovarian hormone suppression and adipogenesis, estrogen deficiency and fat accumulation, exercise and hormone replacement therapy in osteopenic elderly individuals, and nonweight-bearing exercise effects on bone mass in older women. Key publications include “Temporal Multi-Omic Analysis Uncovers Sex-Biased Molecular Programs Underlying Skeletal Muscle Adaptation to Endurance Training” (bioRxiv, 2025), “The Bone, Exercise, Alendronate, and Caloric Restriction (BEACON) trial design and methods” (Contemporary Clinical Trials, 2024), and “Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC): human studies design and protocol” (Journal of Applied Physiology, 2024). She contributed to the Federal Advisory Committee for the first Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (2008), co-chaired the National Research Council’s Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space, and is a member of the Isis Network on Musculoskeletal Health through the Society for Women’s Health Research. Kohrt has received the Citation Award from the American College of Sports Medicine and recognition as a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.