About me
- Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
My Locations
Qualifications and experience
- American Heart Association, International
- French Muscular Dystrophy Association AFM-Téléthon, International
- Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Local
- International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), International
- Orthopedic Research Society, International
- Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Local
- Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, Local
- Penn Institute of Aging, Local
- Penn Muscle Institute, Local
- Penn Orphan Disease Center, Local
- Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) for the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Neuheim, Germany, International
- Study Member for National Institute of Health, Skeletal Muscle and Exercise Physiology Study Section-SMEP) Musculoskeletal, Oral and Skin Sciences Integrated Review Group (MOSS), CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC REVIEW (CSR),, National
Treatments and Conditions
My research
He Q, Lu J, Liang Q, Yao L, Sun T, Wang H, Duffy M, Jiang X, Lin Y, Lee JH, Ahn J, Dyment NA, Mourkioti F, Boerckel JD, Qin L. Prg4+ fibroadipogenic progenitors in muscle are crucial for bone fracture repair. , Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 5(122): 2025,31
Chakkalakai SA, Grossman NZ, Mejias Rivera L, Roberts DW, Pacifici M, Mourkioti F, Shore EM. An Inducible Knock-In Mouse Model of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) Shows Spontaneous Formation of Heterotopic Ossification. , JBMR Plus: 2025
Hilman MC, Mourkioti F, Das S, Cullen DK. Tensile Forces and Nanofiber Alignment Influence Both Innervated and Non-Innervated Skeletal Myofiber Formation in Custom Mechanobioreactors. , Biotechnology J., 20(6): 2025
Park G, Grey JA, Mourkioti F, Han WM. 3D Mechanical Confinement Directs Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Function. , Advanced Biology, 9(4): 2025
Ma N., Mourkioti F Ex vivo two-photon imaging of whole-mount skeletal muscles to visualize stem cell behavior , STAR Protocols, 5(1): 2024,1-14
Das S, Hilman MC, Yang F, Mourkioti F, Yang W, Cullen DK. Motor neurons and endothelial cells additively promote development and fusion of human iPSC-derived skeletal myocytes , Skeletal Muscle, 7(14): 2024
Tichy ED, Lee JH, Li G, Estep KN, Johnson FB, Mourkioti F. Impacts of radiation exposure, hindlimb unloading, and recovery on murine skeletal muscle cell telomere length , NPJ Microgravity, 15(9): 2023,76
Bautista C.A., Srikumar A., Tichy E.D., Qian G., Jiang X., Qin L., Mourkioti F., Dyment N. CD206 CD206+ tendon resident macrophages and potential crosstalk with fibroblasts and the ECM during tendon growth and maturation. , Front. Physiol., Sec. Skeletal Physiology, 14: 2023
Ma N., Chen D., Lee, J.H., Kuri P., Hernandez E.B., Kocan B., Mahmood H., Tichy E.D., Rompolas P., Mourkioti F. Piezo1 regulates the regenerative capacity of skeletal muscles via orchestration of stem cell morphological states , Science Advances, 8(11): 2022,1-14
Stanley A, Tichy ED, Kocan J, Roberts DW, Shore EM and Mourkioti F. Dynamics of skeletal muscle-resident stem cells during myogenesis in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva , NPJ Regenerative Medicine-Nature, 7(1): 2022