Lisa M Larkin, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Larkin  holds a joint appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Larkin is co-director of the Skeletal Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the University of Michigan and has 20 years of expertise on musculoskeletal physiology and small animal surgical procedures and more than 10 yearsexperience specifically with ligament,tendon, muscle and bone tissue engineering.   Larkin, haspioneered methods to co-culture scaffold-free tissue constructs to engineer functional tissues and their interfaces. Dr. Larkin has two provisional patents for her work. She has co-authored 10 peer-reviewed journal papers specifically on tissue engineering, another 31 on the physiology of muscle. Dr Larkin is a member of the following societies: The American Physiological Society, Society for Neuroscience, Tissue Engineering Society International, Biomedical Engineering Society, Orthopaedic Research Society, and American Society for Peripheral Nerve.

Dr. Larkin's research mainly focuses on musculoskeletal physiology and small animal surgical procedures, ligament,tendon, muscle and bone tissue engineering, scaffold-free tissue constructs to engineer functional tissues and their interfaces.