Julia M. Hum, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Physiology at the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She serves as the Director of the Master’s in Biomedical Sciences (BMS) program and was a founding faculty member of the program in 2016. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, and a Ph.D. in Cellular and Integrative Physiology from the Indiana University School of Medicine. During her graduate and postdoctoral training, she was awarded fellowships based on both her teaching skills and research proposals. She was selected as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Teaching Fellow for the GK-12 Urban Educators program and was an invited teaching assistant for a Woods Hole microscopy workshop. She was awarded the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research's (ASBMR) Young Investigator Award. She was selected as an ASBMR Endocrine Fellow during her postdoctoral training and was awarded a research fellowship from the American Heart Association (AHA). She is the Co-Director of the Bone & Muscle Research Group at Marian University. Her lab’s primary research area includes investigating how osteoblasts and osteocytes communicate in response to mechanical and hormonal signaling. Her lab is funded, in part, by an American Osteopathic Association grant studying how soft tissue manipulation therapy affects bone anabolism.