Scientific Services

We bring two major areas of expertise to bear on all problems and projects related to high altitude clinical research. We are experts in both high altitude medicine and exercise physiology at high altitude. Read more...

Fast Facts

Questions about Acute Mountain Sicknesses?

  • Am I at risk of developing AMS?
  • What can I do to prevent AMS?
  • When to seek medical help?
  • My heart seems to beat faster, is this normal?
  • I am in very good physical shape – doesn't that mean that I’m less likely to feel the effects of the altitude?

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Hypoxia in Action

What happens to your body when acutely exposed to lower oxygen:

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News

 

February 2012 --- Scientific American: Mountain Maladies: Genetic screening
susses out susceptibility to altitude sickness

on ARC's pursuit of a genetic test for mountain sickness

 

January 2012 --- Denver Post: Colorado scientist gets military grant
to study treatments for high altitude sickness

"Blood and cells determine how we respond to hypoxia," Roach said.
"We're looking for new pathways we can change with a drug that will let soldiers acclimatize immediately."
Read more: Omics study

 

 

 

 

 

November 2011 --- Who gets altitude sickness and why?

CU Medicine showcases ARC's current studies

 

October 2011 --- AMS Prediction study in full swing.

Ryan Warner of Colorado Matters interviews Rob Roach about the project

 

 


 

 

 

 

Summit Daily News visits track during AMS Prediction study

 

 

September 2011 --- Chicago Tribune

interviews Roach on Health Benefits of Living at Altitude

 

March 2011 --- National News Coverage on Recent Grants

 

 

 

 

 

The Wall Street Journal covers ARC's latest research grant.

 

 

December 2010 --- DoD awards ARC two new research grants

The first is to predict who will get Acute Mountain Sickness. To read more about this study

The second is to study the basic biology of how humans adjust to hypoxia. To read more about this study

 

 

November 2009 --- 5280

ARC work is profiled in Denver's 5280 magazine of October 2009, as part of a general spread on oxygen and altitude