Muscle

EXPLORE research in the MCRI Muscle Bioengineering Lab, led by A/Professor Richard Mills, generates and uses human bioengineered muscle to understand and treat skeletal muscle conditions.

3D human systems, such as organoids or bioengineered tissues, are revolutionizing biomedical research. These approaches enable ‘disease in a dish’ studies and provide useful models to identify human relevant therapies for disease. The work focusses on the development and use of bioengineered human muscle. These models of human muscle act and function like the muscle in your body, which we can test for properties like strength and endurance. The lab’s approach allows the team to generate 1000s of muscle models in a dish, providing unprecedented access to human tissue for cell biology, disease modelling and drug discovery studies.

This research underpins our targeted projects investigating:

• Identify new treatments for Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

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