Blake Schofield

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Matthew D. Wood, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2016

Enrollment year: 2020

Research summary
Peripheral nerve regeneration across nerve grafts

My research seeks to understand how vascularization influences cellular organization and axonal regeneration in the context of nerve injuries repaired with acellular nerve allografts.

Graduate publications
Colchado D, Schofield JB, Hunter DA, Xia X, Yang M, Sacks JM, Wood MD, Li X. 2025 Sonic Hedgehog Agonists Induce Repair Schwann Cells. Biotechnol Bioeng, 122(11):2967-79. PMCID:

Liebendorfer A, Finnan MJ, Schofield JB, Pinni SL, Acevedo-Cintrón JA, Schellhardt L, Snyder-Warwick AK, Mackinnon SE, Wood MD. 2023 Loss of Gata1 decreased eosinophils, macrophages, and type 2 cytokines in regenerating nerve and delayed axon regeneration after a segmental nerve injury. Exp Neurol, 362():114327. PMCID:

Pan D, Schofield JB, Schellhardt L, Snyder-Warwick AK, Mackinnon SE, Li X, Wood MD. 2023 A feasibility study transplanting macrophages to a segmental nerve injury. Muscle Nerve, 68(6):894-900. PMCID: PMC10840956

Li X, Young ER, Martin C, Ribaudo JG, Zaghloul M, Roberts S, Meade R, Arif B, Moritz WR, Madira S, Schofield JB, Xun H, Hicks CW, Kang SH, Zayed MA, Sacks JM. Vaso-Lock for sutureless anastomosis in a pig arteriovenous loop model. Biomaterials, 308():122563. PMCID: PMC11453428