Welcome to our Muscle Group

The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital Muscle Group was founded in 2006 as a way to bring investigators together with diverse research interests in skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and neuromuscular biology. The goal of the group is to foster interactions among our laboratories to improve the basic and translational approaches to treating muscle injury and disease. The group has grown to 24 laboratories with over 100 members spanning multiple schools and programs within our respective campuses. These include Cell Physiology, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Pediatrics, Neurology, Cancer Genetics, Sports Medicine, Nutrition, Nursing, Neuroscience, and Dentistry. Since 2006 we have held monthly meetings where we participate in presentations from principal investigators, trainees, and invited speakers. In November of 2008 and 2009 the group held its annual trainee poster session where graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and staff came together to share their current work. In addition, we held our first symposium on muscle biology and disease that took place on The Ohio State University campus in the spring of 2009. We invite you to take a closer look at our group along with our past and upcoming events.