Joe V. Chakkalakal, PhD, principal investigator, and department faculty member, wrote a perspective on a recent study by Aaron B. Morton on endothelial cell-derived ephrin-B2 in angiogenesis and the regeneration of the neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) following injury to adult skeletal muscle for the Journal of Physiology.
His lab studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neuromuscular development, regeneration, and aging, emphasizing understanding stem and progenitor cell fate and function and stem cell niche biology. We are affiliated with the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Cell Biology as part of the Duke Orthopaedic Cellular, Developmental, and Genome Laboratories within the Duke University School of Medicine.