The Mendias Lab is part of the Orthopaedic Research Laboratories in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School.


Our research interests include:

  1. -Molecular mechanisms of skeletal muscle atrophy and fibrosis

  2. -Tendon mechanobiology and signal transduction

  3. -Tendon pathophysiology

  4. -Myoblast and tendon fibroblast cell biology

  5. -MicroRNA biology

  6. -Rotator cuff disease

  7. -ACL injuries

  8. -Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI)

  9. -Clinical sports medicine research