Bylaws

Officers and Council

We favor a very broad scope for the Society. The intellectual focus of the Society will therefore include:

• the structure and function of components of the extracellular matrix,
• the interactions of these components with cells,
• the consequences of these interactions for intracellular signaling and gene expression,
• the orderly progression of processes utilizing these interactions during development,
• and the disruption of these processes in hereditary and acquired diseases of animals and humans.

Matrix biology is also highly relevant to allied disciplines such as tumor biology, orthopedics, rheumatology, dermatology, and bioengineering.