Dr. Jim Vigoreaux
Dr. Jim Vigoreaux is a VASE Board Member, inducted in 2024.
Dr. Vigoreaux is a muscle biologist who has published extensively on the genetics, development, and function of muscle, often taking a multidisciplinary approach and forging international collaborations.
His lab at UVM has provided research training to nearly two hundred students and post-doctoral fellows, including Honors students, McNair Scholars, AGEP Scholars, Beckman Scholars, Masters, and Doctoral students. In 2015, Dr. Vigoreaux was elected to membership in the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering and in 2020 was named Lifetime Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology. Jim Vigoreaux is the Breazzano Family Green & Gold Professor of Biology at the University of Vermont (UVM). Dr. Vigoreaux has served on the editorial board of several journals and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility, Biology, and Frontiers in Physiology.
B.S. in Mathematics - University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras)
Ph.D. in Biochemistry - University of Oklahoma