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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

Carmen Birchmeier, PhD, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
Markus A Rüegg, PhD, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Fabio Rossi, MD, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada

Emeritus Editors-in-Chief

Kevin P Campbell, PhD, University of Iowa, USA
David J. Glass, MD, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, USA
Michael A Rudnicki, PhD, University of Ottawa, Canada

Editorial Board members
Helge Amthor, MD, PhD, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
Elisabeth R Barton, PhD, University of Florida, USA
Mary Baylies, PhD, Sloan Kettering Institute, USA
Helen Blau, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Sue Bodine, PhD, University of Iowa, USA
Andrew Brack, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Joe ChakkalakalPhD, Duke University School of Medicine , USA
Jeffrey Chamberlain, PhD, University of Washington School of Medicine, USA
Benedicte Chazaud, PhD, Institut NeuroMyoGène, France
Elizabeth Chen, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Tom H Cheung, PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR
Colin Crist, PhD, McGill University, USA
Ronald Cohn, MD, University of Toronto, Canada
Kay Davies, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
F. Jeffrey Dilworth, PhD, University of Wisconsin, USA
Robert Dirksen, PhD, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Madeleine Durbeej-Hjalt, PhD, Lund University, Sweden
So-ichiro Fukada, PhD, Osaka University, Japan
Emanuela Gussoni, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Denis Guttridge, PhD, Ohio State University, USA
Susan Hamilton, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Peter Jones, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno ,USA
Robert Krauss, PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Michael  Kyba, PhD, University of Minnesota Medical School , USA
Nigel Laing, PhD, University of Western Australia, Australia
Se-Jin Lee, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
Fabien Le Grand, PhD, CNRS Délégation Paris, France
Leslie Leinwand, PhD, University of Colorado, USA
Pascal Maire, PhD, Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, France
John McDermott, PhD, York University, Canada
Lynn Megeney, PhD, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Lin Mei, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Luciano Merlini, MD, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy
Doug Millay, PhD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA
Philippos Mourikis, PhD, Université de Paris, Institut Cochin, INSERM, France
Pura Muñoz-Cánoves, PhD, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Antonio Musaro, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Ichizo Nishino, MD, PhD, National Institute of Neuroscience and National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan
Eric N Olson, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Bradley Olwin, PhD, University of Colorado, USA
Rita Perlingeiro, PhD, University of Minnesota, USA
Scott Powers, PhD, University of Florida, USA
Pier Lorenzo Puri, MD. Burnham Institute, USA
Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Frederic Relaix, PhD, International Research Training Group for Myology, France
Marco Sandri, MD, University of Padova, Italy
Vittorio Sartorelli, MD, National Institutes of Health, USA
Tea Shavlakadze, PhD, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, USA
Simone Spuler, MD, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Kenneth Walsh, PhD, University of Virginia, USA
Huating Wang, PhD, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Zipora Yablonka-Reuveni, PhD, University of Washington, USA 
Hang Yin, PhD, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Georgia, USA
Dahai Zhu, PhD, Basic Institute of Medical Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Max Planck Center for Tissue Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine of Bioland Laboratory, China, People's Republic

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    4.9 - 2-year Impact Factor
    4.8 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.171 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    1.530 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    8 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    149 days submission to accept (Median)

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