Franccesco Boeno
- Position: Assistant Professor
- Department: Movement Sciences and Health
- Office Location: Building 72
- fpintoboeno@uwf.edu
- Campus: None
Biography
Dr. Franccesco Boeno is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Movement Sciences and Health at the University of West Florida. His research focuses on understanding the interplay between skeletal muscle and the microcirculation, with a particular emphasis on how critical illness and systemic inflammation impair muscle perfusion, metabolism, and recovery.
Dr. Boeno’s laboratory investigates molecular and physiological mechanisms regulating muscle microvascular function under normal and stressed conditions, integrating fundamental science with pre-clinical and translational approaches. His long-term goal is to develop strategies that improve muscle health and functional outcomes in vulnerable populations, including patients recovering from sepsis and other severe inflammatory conditions. He employs state-of-the-art methodologies such as intravital microscopy, muscle contraction systems, and transgenic rodent models to explore microvascular dysfunction and myofiber interactions.
Dr. Boeno earned his Ph.D. in Human Movement Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Florida, where he broadened his expertise in muscle biology, vascular physiology, and translational models of critical illness. Dr. Boeno has experience working with both clinical models of exercise and metabolic dysfunction and pre-clinical models of critical illness and sepsis. providing a unique perspective that bridges basic science and clinical application.
