Almost everything we know about health comes from the study of disease. Through the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, University of Oregon researchers are flipping the script: They’re studying healthy athletes to understand how to best improve performance for all.

The alliance, a partnership between universities, brings together researchers from different disciplines to tackle big questions in sport and human performance. At the UO, their results are giving new insights into human health and well-being, whether someone is an elite track and field star or a casual jogger.

Much of that work takes place in the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact and the Bowerman Sports Science Center, a next-generation lab that uses the latest equipment to get at the root of human performance and find ways to protect and improve it. It’s here that the gee-whiz advances of tomorrow are taking shape today.

What’s next? Maybe a regenerative medicine breakthrough that could help heal damaged tissue rather than replacing or repairing it, or perhaps never-before-seen ways of using new technology into improve everyday life. Whatever comes next, the UO and the Wu Tsai Alliance are on track to lift up both elite athletes and weekend warriors. Watch the following video to learn more.