Professor Philip Ainslie, Ph.D.

Phil Ainslie is a Professor, Research Chair and co-directs the Centre of Heart, Lung and Vascular Health at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Phil’s research program aims to better understand the mechanisms regulating blood flow in health, disease and during environmental stress. His diverse expertise in assessing cardiometabolic and brain function during physiological scenarios ranging from sleep to exercise, the stresses of high altitude to deep-sea diving, and healthy aging to heart and lung disease, has made him a leading authority on vascular function. Of great interest to Lexaria, Phil’s work on cerebrovascular function with DehydraTECH has revealed some evidence of a propensity to cross the blood-brain-barrier and improve cerebral blood flow. Phil has published >400 peer-reviewed full manuscripts (h-index: >80; i10 index: >250; >25,000 citations) and has recently co-authored two recent textbooks. Phil has won numerous national and international awards for his research and sits on various senior international scientific leadership and policy advisory groups.  Prof. Ainslie has consulted to Lexaria for several years playing a lead role in the development and execution of Lexaria’s clinical studies to-date in the therapeutic areas of cardiovascular and cardiometabolic disease.