Affiliated with the American Society for Matrix Biology and the International Society for Matrix Biology

Matrix Biology was established in 1980 as Collagen and Related Research, an international scientific journal for publication of research on the extracellular matrix. The journal became Matrix (1989-1993) and then Matrix Biology in 1994 to reflect the expansion of knowledge and interest in the diversity of extracellular matrix-associated molecules and the increasing awareness of the importance of 'matrix' in development, health, and disease and its significance for biological processes.

Matrix Biology is now the leading journal devoted to publishing the latest research results in extracellular matrix research that deal with molecular components of the extracellular matrix and biological impacts of cellular interactions with extracellular matrices. We welcome articles in any area of extracellular matrix research that provide new mechanistic insights or which challenge longstanding biological paradigms in the field of extracellular matrix research.

Matrix Biology publishes original studies in, but not limited to, cell and molecular biology, developmental biology, genetics, structural biology, chronobiology, infection and immunity, immunology, virology, signalling, disease mechanisms, and therapeutics related to the extracellular matrix and cellular interactions with the extracellular matrix. Papers considered for peer-review must contain substantial advances supported by mechanistic and functional insights.

In addition to original research articles, Matrix Biology welcomes highly impactful reviews. Please view our Guide for Authors for more information.

Reasons to submit your next article to Matrix Biology:
The premier journal in the field of extracellular matrix biology with impacts across many fields of biology and medicine.
Published articles have a universal appeal, value, and utility to the researcher community worldwide.
An international editorial board of key researchers in the field.
Flexible publication: you can choose to publish open access.
Your paper your way: no unnecessary formatting requests.
No submission fees.
No color page charges for online version.


Matrix Biology Plus, a companion title to Matrix Biology, is an online-only, open access journal welcomes papers reporting novel findings, which provide a substantive advance in the field of matrix biology without a strict requirement for novel biological mechanisms.

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Editor-in-Chief
Renato Iozzo
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Deputy Editors
Nikos Karamanos
University of Patras Department of Chemistry, Patras, Greece
Liliana Schaefer
Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Founding Editors (Collagen and Related Research)
Steffen Gay
UniversitatsSpital Zurich Zentrum fur Experimentelle Rheumatologie, Zürich, Switzerland
Edward J. Miller
Science Editors (Matrix Biology Highlights)
Maria Gubbiotti
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Thomas Neill
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Senior Associate Editor
Ralph Sanderson
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Associate Editors
Joanne Murphy-Ullrich
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Alexander Nyström
University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Maurizio Pacifici
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Ambra Pozzi
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Francesco Ramirez
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
Sylvie Ricard-Blum
Institute of Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry and Biochemistry, Villeurbanne Cedex, France
Jean Schwarzbauer
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Jouni Uitto, MD, PhD
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Thomas Wight
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Marian Young, PhD
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Peter Yurchenco
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States
Editorial Board
Suneel Apte
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Eri Arikawa-Hirasawa
Juntendo University, Bunkyo-Ku, Japan
Thomas Barker
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Enrique Brandan
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Leena Bruckner-Tuderman, MD
University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Shukti Chakravarti, PhD
New York University, New York, New York, United States
Danny Chan, MD
University of Hong Kong Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine School of Biomedical Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Edna Cukierman, PhD
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
George Dodge
University of Pennsylvania Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Beate Eckes
University of Cologne, Koln, Germany
Adam Engler
Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States
Mary Cynthia Farach-Carson
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
Reinhard Fässler
Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Jorge Filmus
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jens Fischer
University Hospital Dusseldorf Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Düsseldorf, Germany
Antonella Forlino, PhD
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Hudson Freeze
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California, United States
Stavros Garantziotis
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States
Susanne Grässel
University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Lin Han
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Vincent Hascall
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Boris Hinz
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hannu Järveläinen
University of Turku, TURKU, Finland
Jean X. Jiang
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Wei Kong
Peking University Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Beijing, China
Ilona Kovalszky
Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Themis Kyriakides, PhD
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Lucia Languino
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Rachel Lennon, PhD
The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Merry Lindsey, PhD
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER, Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Robert Mecham
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Kim Midwood
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Jeffrey Miner
Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Maurizio Mongiat
Cancer Institute, Torino, Italy
Andrea Morrione
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Alexandra Naba, PhD
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Eok-Soo Oh
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Christopher Overall
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Andrea Page-McCaw
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Alberto Passi
University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Taina Pihlajaniemi
University of Oulu Centre of Excellence in Cell-Extracellular Matrix Research, OULU, Finland
Addolorata Pisconti
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Ellen Pure
University of Pennsylvania Department of Political Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Dieter Reinhardt
McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Kirsi Rilla, PhD
University of Eastern Finland, JOENSUU, Finland
Makarand Risbud
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Irit Sagi
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IsraelRashmin C. Savani
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States
Katja Schenke-Layland, MSc, PhD
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
Irving M. Shapiro
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
David Sherwood
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Melanie Simpson
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Lydia Sorokin
University of Münster, Munster, Germany
Louis Soslowsky
University of Pennsylvania Department of Bioengineering, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Achilleas Theocharis
University of Patras Department of Chemistry, Patras, Greece
Eva A. Turley, PhD
Western University Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, Ontario, Canada
Israel Vlodavsky
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Andrea Vortkamp
University of Duisburg Essen Department of Aquatic Ecology, Essen, Germany
Hideto Watanabe, M.D. & Ph.D.
Aichi Medical University, Aichi-Gun, Japan
Malgorzata Wygrecka
University of Giessen, Gießen, Germany
Kenneth Yamada
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Roy Zent
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States