Rob Wüst is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research group studies skeletal and cardiac muscle metabolism and function. His interest includes skeletal muscle adaptations after bed rest, in collaboration with astronauts from ESA and NASA and after acute and chronic inflammation.
Recent work focuses on skeletal muscle abnormalities and exercise responses in patients with Long COVID and ME/CFS, which has led to a lot of international media attention. To better understand how muscle metabolism changes under different conditions, human muscle biopsies, mouse models, immunofluorescence and electron microscopy and various cellular and molecular techniques are used. The research is funded by ZonMw, and various European and American (patient) organizations for diabetes, Long COVID and ME/CFS.
