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  1. Chramiec A and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Tissue Engineered Models of Healthy and Malignant Human Bone Marrow. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews [Epub ahead of print] 2019 Apr 17, PMID: 31002835.
     
  2. Zhao Y, Wang EY, Huyer LD, Yeager K, Liao S, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Radisic M and Zhang B. A multimaterial microphysiological platform enabled by rapid casting of elastic micro-wires. Advanced Functional Materials 8(5):e1801187, 2019.
     
  3. Ronaldson-Bouchard K, Teles D, Yeager K, Ma SP, Chen T, Song LJ, Morikawa K, Wobma HM, Yazawa M and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Engineering of human cardiac muscle electromechanically matured to an adult-like phenotype. Nature Protocols (accepted for publication)
     
  4. Guenthart BA, O’Neill JD, Kim J, Fung K, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Bacchetta M. Cell replacement in human lung bioengineering. J Heart Lung Transplant. 38(2):215-224, 2019.
     
  5. Guenthart BA, Chen YW, Bacchetta M. New insights and therapeutic targets: Lung injury and disease. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 157(1):416-420, 2019.
     
  6. Guenthart BA, O’Neill JD, Kim J, Queen D, Chocotka S, Fung K, Simpson M, Donocoff R, Salna, Vila OF, Ma SP, Cunningham K, Halligan SP, Chen Y-W, Wobma HM, Hozain AE, Romanov A, Snoeck HW, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Bacchetta M. Recovery of severely damaged lungs using an interventional cross-circulation platform. Nature Communications 10(1):1985, 2019. News and Views in Nature Communications, Editor’s choice in Science Translational Medicine: A breath of fresh air for donor lungs. Jessica D Weaver 11(494) eaax95578, 2019.
     
  7. Pinezich M and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Bioengineering approaches to organ preservation ex vivo. Experimental Biology and Medicine 244(8):630-645, 2019.
     
  8. Vila OF, Uzel SGM, Ma SP, Williams D, Kamm RD and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Bioengineering methodologies using optogenetic cells enable patient-specific quantification of neuromuscular function during development and disease. Theranostics 9(5):1232-1246, 2019. Cover
     
  9. Zhao Y, Rafatian N, Feric N, Cox B, Aschar-Sobbi R, Zhang B, Wang EY, Aggarwal P, Zhang B, Conant G, Ronaldson-Bouchard K, Pahnke A, Protze S, Lee JH, Huyer LD, Jekic D, Wickeler A, Naguib H, Keller GM¬, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Broeckel U, Backx PH and Milica Radisic. A platform for generation of chamber-specific cardiac tissues and disease modeling. Cell 176, 913–927, 2019. Commentary in the same issue.
  1. Chen T and G Vunjak-Novakovic. In vitro models of ischemia-reperfusion injury. Regen Eng Transl Med. 4(3):142-153, 2018.
     
  2. Chen T and G Vunjak-Novakovic. Human tissue engineered model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. Tissue Engineering , special issue on “Engineered tissues derived from induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for disease modeling, drug discovery, and replacement therapies” 25(9-10):711-724, 2019.
     
  3. Jaenisch R, Dubois N, Rasko JEJ, Deng HK, Alvarado AS, Fuchs E, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Baldwin K. Challenging stem cells. Cell 173(5):1063-1065, 2018.
     
  4. Feric N, Aschar-Sobi R, Zhao YM, Zhang BY, Ronaldson K, Pallotta I, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Radisic M. Biowire (TM) II matured human engineered 3D cardiac tissue for drug discovery and cardiotoxicity applications. J Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods 93:124, 2018.
     
  5. Reilein A, Melamed D, Park KS, Berg A, Cimetta E, Tandon N, Finkelstein, Kalderon D. and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Alternative direct stem cell derivatives defined by stem cell location and graded Wnt signaling. Nature Protocols 13:2601-2614, 2018. Cover
     
  6. Berry JL, Zhu, W, Tang Y, Krishnamurthy P, Ge Y, Cooke J, Garry D, Yang HT, Rajasekaran NS, Koch W, Song L, Chen Y, Domae K, Qin G, Cheng K, Kamp T, Ye L, Hu S, Ogle B, Rogers J, Dorn J, Able D, Davis M, Prabhu S, Liao R, Pu B, Wang Y, Ping P, Bursac N, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Wu J, Bolli R, Menasche P, Zhang J. Convergences of Life Sciences and Engineering in Understanding and Treating Heart Failure. Circulation Research 124(1):161-169, 2018.
     
  7. Li A, Wei Y, Hung CH and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Chondrogenic properties of collagen type XI isolated from cartilage extracellular matrix. Biomaterials 173: 47-57, 2018.
     
  8. Zhang J, Zhu W, Radisic M and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Can we engineer a human cardiac patch for therapy? Circulation Research 123:244–265, 2018.
     
  9. Wobma HM, Tamargo MA, Goeta S, Brown LM, Duran-Struuck R, Vunjak-Novakovic G. The influence of hypoxia and IFN-γ on the proteome and metabolome of therapeutic mesenchymal stem cells. Biomaterials 167: 226-234, 2018.
     
  10. Žigon-Branc S, Barlič A, Knežević M, Jeras M and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Testing of anti-TNF-α biologicals using spheroids of human chondrocytes and chondrogenically differentiated mesenchymal stem cells. Biotechnology Progress 34(4): 1045-1058, 2018.
     
  11. Ronaldson – Bouchard K, Ma S, Chen T, Yeager K, Sirabella D, Song LJ, Yazawa M and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Advanced maturation of human cardiac tissue grown from pluripotent stem cells. Nature , 556(7700): 239-243, 2018. Highlights: Dhahri V, Romagnuolo R and Laflamme MA: Training heart tissue to mature. Nature Biomedical Engineering 2: 351–352, 2018. Tracy Hampton: Scientists Create Adult-Like Cardiac Model. Highlighted in Circulation (July 2018); Joshua T. Maxwell and Chunhui Xu: Stem-Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes Grow Up: Start Young and Train Harder. Cell Stem Cell 22: 790-791, 2018.
     
  12. Liu B, Lee BW, Nakanishi K, Villasante A, Williamson R, Metz J, Kim J, Kanai M, Bi L, Brown K, Di Paolo G, Homma S, Sims PA, Topkara VK, Vunjak-Novakovic G. Cardiac recovery via extended cell-free delivery of extracellular vesicles secreted by cardiomyocytes derived from iPS cells. Nature Biomedical Engineering 2:293-303, 2018; Highlights: News and Views: Heallen TR and Martin JF Heart repair via cardiomyocyte-secreted vesicles. Nature Biomedical Engineering 2:271-272, 2018. Alexandra Le Bras. Exosome-based therapy to repair the injured heart. Nature Reviews in Cardiology May 9, 2018. Steven M Jay Slow and steady wins the race. Editors choice, Science Translational Medicine , 10:441, eaat 8530, Cover article
     
  13. Ronaldson-Bouchard K. and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Organs on a Chip: a fast-track for engineered tissues in drug development. Cell Stem Cell 22(3):310-324, 2018.
     
  14. Wobma HM, Kanai M, Ma SP, Nakazawa KR, Li H, Duran-Struuck R, Winchester R and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Combined hypoxia-IFN-γ priming is superior to either stimulus alone in promoting immunosuppressive mesenchymal stromal cells. Journal of Immunology and Regenerative Medicine 1:45-56, 2018
     
  15. Marturano-Kruik, Nava MM, Yaeger K, Ambati SR, Chramiec A, Hao L, Robinson S, Guo E, Raimondi MT and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Human bone perivascular niche-on-a-chip for studying metastatic homing PNAS 115(6):1256-1261, 2018.
     
  16. Bernhard JC, Hulphers E, Rieder B, Ferguson J, Rünzler D, Nau T, Redl H and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Effects of perfusion culture on hypertrophic chondrocyte maturation, matrix deposition and subsequent bone regeneration in vivo. Tissue Engineering A 24(11-12):1022-1033, 2018.
  1. Kim J, Guenthart B, O’Neill JD, Dorrello NV, Bacchetta M and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Controlled delivery and minimally invasive imaging of therapeutic cells in the lung. Scientific Reports 7(1):13082, 2017.
     
  2. Stephens EH, Han J, BS, Trawick EA, Di Martino ES, Akkiraju H, Brown LM, Connell J, Grande-Allen KJ, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Takayama H. Left-Ventricular Assist Device Impact on Aortic Valve Mechanics, Proteomics and Ultrastructure. Annals Thoracic Surgery 2017 Dec 6. [Epub ahead of print] Recommended by F1000
     
  3. Villasante A, Sakaguchi K, Kim J, Cheung NK, Nakayama M, Parsa H, Okano T, Shimizu T and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Vascularized tissue-engineered model of neuroblastoma for studying drug resistance. Theranostics 7(17):4099-4117, 2017 (cover article)
     
  4. Parsa H, Wang BZ and Vunjak-Novakovic G. A Microfluidic Platform for the High-throughput Study of Pathologic Cardiac Hypertrophy. Lab on a Chip 17:3264-3271. 2017.
     
  5. Jay SM and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Extracellular Vesicles and their Versatile Roles in Tissue Engineering. Tissue Eng Part A. 2017 Sep 19. [Epub ahead of print]
     
  6. Laratta J, Saifi C, Petridis P, Bernhard J, Shillingford J, Robinson S, Cerpa M, Messer Z, Lenke L, Lehman R, Vunjak-Nvakovic G and Weidenbaum M. Tissue Engineered Bone Differentiated From Human Adipose Derived Stem Cells Inhibit Posterolateral Fusion in an Athymic Rat Model. Spine (in press)
     
  7. Dorrello NV, Guenthart BA, O’Neill JD, Kim J, Biscotti M, Cunningham K, Swayne T, Wobma HM, Huang SXL, Snoeck H-W, Bacchetta M, Vunjak-Novakovic G. Functional vascularized grafts for lung bioengineering. Science Advances (in press)
     
  8. Jay SM, Vunjak-Novakovic G. Extracellular Vesicles and their Versatile Roles in Tissue Engineering. Tissue Eng Part A. 2017 Jun 24. doi: 10.1089/ten.TEA.2017.0302. [Epub ahead of print]
     
  9. Ng J, Wei Y, Zhou B, Bhumiratana S, Burapachaisri A, Guo XE and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Ectopic implantation of juvenile osteochondral tissues recapitulates endochondral ossification. J Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 2017 Jun 10. doi: 10.1002/term.2500. [Epub ahead of print]
     
  10. Bernhard J, Ferguson J, Rieder B, Hiemel P, Leinfellner G, Lidinsky D, Nuernberger S, Runzler D, Nau T, Tangl S, Redl H and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic. Hypertrophic chondrocytes promote tissue-engineered long bone repair by accelerating endochondral ossification Biomaterials 139:202-212, 2017.
     
  11. Wobma HM, Liu D, Vunjak-Novakovic G. Three Dimensional Culture of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for Wound Repair. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering (in press)
     
  12. Yuan X, Wei Y, Villasante A, Ng J, Arkonac DE, Pen-hsiu Grace Chao P-h.G, Vunjak-Novakovic G. Stem cell delivery in tissue-specific hydrogel enabled meniscal repair in an orthotopic rat model. Biomaterials 132:59-71, 2017.
     
  13. O’Neill JO, Guenthart BA, Kim J, Scott Chicotka S, Queen D, Fung K, Marboe C, Romanov A, Huang SXL, Snoeck H-W, Bacchetta M, Vunjak-Novakovic Cross-circulation for extracorporeal support and recovery of the lung. Nature Biomedical Engineering Epubished ahead of print, March 7, 2017
     
  14. Nims RJ, Cigan AD, Durney KM, Jones BK, Lawv W-SA, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Hung CT and GA Ateshian. Constrained cage culture improves engineered cartilage functional properties by enhancing collagen network stability. Tissue Engineering Specisal issue on Strategic Directions in Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering 2017 Feb 14. [Epub ahead of print]
     
  15. Ng J, Wei Y, Zhou B, Bernhard J, Robinson S, Burapachaisri A, Guo XE and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Spatiotemporal regulation promotes in vitro formation of phenotypically stable human articular cartilage constructs. PNAS 114(10): 2556-2561, 2017.
     
  16. Fine B and Vunjak-Novakovic G. The shortcomings of animal models and the rise of engineered human cardiac tissue. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering (in press)
     
  17. Villasante A, Marturano-Kruik A, Robinson ST, Liu Z, Guo XE and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Tissue-Engineered Model of Human Osteolytic Bone Tumor. Tissue Engineering C 23(2):98-107, 2017.
  1. Ng J, Spiller K, Bernhard J and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Biomimetic approaches for bone tissue engineering. Tissue Engineering 2016 Dec 2. [Epub ahead of print]
     
  2. Reilein A, Melamed D, Park K, Berg A, Cimetta E, Tandon N, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Finkelstein S, and Kalderon D. Distinct direct stem cell derivatives defined by stem cell location and graded Wnt signaling. Nature Cell Biology (in press)
     
  3. Ng J, Wei Y, Zhou B, Burapachaisri A, Guo XE and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Extracellular matrix components and culture regimen selectively regulate cartilage formation by self-assembling human mesenchymal stem cells in vitro and in vivo. Stem Cell Research and Therapy 7(1):183, 2016
     
  4. Ton VK, Vunjak-Novakovic G Topkara VK. Transcriptional Patterns of Reverse Remodeling by Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs): A Consistent Signature. Invited review. Expert Review of Medical Devices 13(11):1029-1034, 2016.
     
  5. Vunjak-Novakovic G. Tissue engineering of the heart: an evolving paradigm. J. Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery. Editorial (in press)
     
  6. Llucià-Valldeperas A, Soler-Botija L, Gálvez-Montón C, Roura S, Prat-Vidal C, Perea-Gil I, Sanchez B, Bragos R, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Bayes-Genis A. Electro-mechanical Conditioning of Adult Progenitor Cells Improves Recovery of Cardiac Function After Myocardial Infarction. Stem Cells Translational Medicine 2016 Sep 29. [Epub ahead of print].
     
  7. Cigan AD, Durney KM, Nims RJ, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Hung CT and Ateshian G. Nutrient Channels Aid the Growth of Articular Surface-Sized Engineered Cartilage Constructs. Tissue Engineering 22(17-18):1063-74, 2016.
     
  8. Cigan AD, Nims RJ, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Hung CT and Ateshian G. Optimizing nutrient channel placement and revisiting TGF-β in large engineered cartilage constructs. J Biomechanics 49(10):2089-94, 2016.
     
  9. Cigan AD, Roach BL, Robert J. Nims RJ, Tan AR, PhD, Albro MB, Stoker AM, Cook JL, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Hung CT, and Ateshian GA. High seeding density of human chondrocytes in agarose produces tissue-engineered cartilage with native mechanical and biochemical properties. J Biomechanics (in press)
     
  10. Bhumiratana S, Bernhard JC, Alfi DM, Yeager K, Eton RE, Bova J, Shah F, Gimble JM, Lopez MJ, Eisig SB, and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Tissue Engineered Autologous Grafts for Facial Bone Reconstruction. Science Translational Medicine 15 JUN 2016: 343RA83
     
  11. Bernhard J and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Should we use cells or tissue engineering for cartilage regeneration? Stem Cell Research and Therapy, thematic series on the “Biology and clinical application of stem cells for autoimmune and musculoskeletal disorders” 7(1):56, 2016.
     
  12. Marturano-Kruik A, Vilassante A and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Bioengineered models of solid human tumors for cancer research. Methods in Molecular Biology, volume on Bioreactors for Stem Cells Biology: Methods and Protocols 1502:203-211, 2016.
     
  13. Ogle BM, Bursac N, Domian I, Huang NF, Menasche P, Murry C, Pruitt B, Radisic M, Wu J, Wu S, Zhang J, Zimmermann WH, Vunjak-Novakovic G. Distilling Complexity to Advance Cardiac Tissue Engineering. Science Translational Medicine 8, 342ps13 (2016).
     
  14. Liu Z and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Modeling tumor microenvironments using custom-designed biomaterial scaffolds. Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 11:94-105, 2016.
     
  15. Lee BW, B Liu, A Pluchinsky, G Eng and G Vunjak-Novakovic. Modular assembly approach to engineer geometrically precise cardiovascular tissue. Advanced Healthcare Materials 5(8):900-906, 2016.
     
  16. Villasante A, Marturano-Kruik A, Ambati SR, Liu Z, Parsa H, Moore MAS and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Recapitulating the size and cargo of tumor exosomes in a tissue-engineered model. Theranostics 6(8):1119-1130, 2016.
     
  17. Wobma H and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 2015: A Year in Review. Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews, 22(2):101-113, 2016.
     
  18. Wobma HM, Kanai M, Ma SP, Nakazawa KR, Duran-Struuk R, Li HW and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Preconditioning Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Improve Transplant Tolerance. Biology of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation 22(3): S149-S149, 2016.
     
  19. Wobma HM, Ma SP, Fang J, Vasavada H, Duran-Struuk R, Winchester R, Hirshi K. and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Protection of Organ Vasculature By Endothelial Overexpression of HLA-G. Biology of Blood and Bone Marrow Transplantation 22(3): S362-S362, 2016.
     
  20. Ma S and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Tissue-Engineering for the Study of Cardiac Biomechanics. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 138(2):021010, 2016.
     
  21. Eng G, Lee BW, Protas L, Gagliardi M, Brown K, Kass RS, Keller G, Robinson RB and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Autonomous beating rate adaptation in human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes. Nature Communications 7:10312, 2016. Highlighted in F1000
     
  22. Albro MB, Nims RJ, Durney KM, Cigan AD, Shim JJ, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Hung CT and Ateshian GA. Heterogeneous engineered cartilage growth results from gradients of media-supplemented active TGF-β and is ameliorated by the alternative supplementation of latent TGF-β. Biomaterials (in press)
  1. Spiller K, Wrona EA, Romero-Torres S, Pallotta I, Graney PL, Witherel CE, Panisker LM, Feldman R, Urbanska A, Santmabrogio L, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Freytes DO. Differential Gene Expressionin Human and Murine Macrophages. Exp Cell Res [Epub ahead of print] 2015 Oct 20.
     
  2. Kim J, O’Neill JD and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Spontaneous displacement of liquid plugs in a capillary tube induced by surface tension. Applied Physics Letters (in press)
     
  3. Vunjak-Novakovic G. A protein for healing infarcted hearts. News & Views. Nature 525, 461–462, 2015.
     
  4. Kim J, O’Neill JD, Dorrello NV, Bacchetta M and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Targeted delivery of liquid micro-volumes into the lung. PNAS 112 (37) 11530-11535, 2015. Highlighted in Science Translational Medicine, Editor’s choice, K Spiller: Super model. 7 (307)307, 2015.
     
  5. Gadjanski I and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Challenges in engineering osteochondral tissue grafts with hierarchical structure. Expert Opinion On Biological Therapy (accepted for publication)
     
  6. Parsa H, Ronaldson K and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Bioengineering methods for myocardial regeneration. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (accepted for publication)
     
  7. Reeves ARD, Spiller KL, Freytes DO, Vunjak-Novakovic GV, Kaplan DL. Controlled Release of Cytokines using Silk-biomaterials for Macrophage Polarization. Biomaterials 73:272-283, 2015.
     
  8. Spotnitz HM, Yeager KJ, Cabreriza SE, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Wang DY and Pearson GDN. Introducer Development for Coronary Sinus Access from Parasternal Mediastinotomy. Innovations 10(3), 2015.
     
  9. Marturano A, Yeager K, Bach D, Villasante A, Cimetta E and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Mimicking biophysical stimuli within bone tumor microenvironment. IEEE (accepted for publication)
     
  10. Topkara VK, Godier-Furnemont A, Bax N, Fine B, Garan A, Yuzefpolskaya M, Takeda K, Takayama H, Naka Y, Mancini D, Colombo, PC , Jorde UP and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Inflammation Mediated Fibrosis Is Regulated Through Distinct Gene-Gene Co-Expression Networks in the Failing Human Myocardium Before and After Left Ventricular Assist Device Support. J Heart Lung Transplantation 34(4): S212-S212, 2015.
     
  11. Ng J, Bernhard J and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Osteochondral Tissue Engineering. Methods Mol Biol (accepted for publication)
     
  12. Godier-Furnémont A, Tiburcy T, Wagner E, Lämmle S, Armouche AE, Lehnart S, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Zimmermann W-H. Electro-Mechanical Stimulation at Near-Physiological Frequency Matures Calcium Handling and T-Tubulation in Postnatal Cardiomyocytes. Biomaterials 60: 82-91, 2015.
     
  13. Bhumiratana S and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Engineering physiologically stiff and stratified human osteochondral tissues by fusing condensed mesenchymal stem cells. Methods 84:109-114, 2015.
     
  14. Vunjak-Novakovic G. Advanced methods for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (Editorial). Methods 84:1-2, 2015.
     
  15. Sirabella D, Cimetta E and Vunjak-Novakovic G. “The state of the heart”: recent advances in engineering human cardiac tissue from pluripotent stem cells. Experimental Biology and Medicine Epub 240: 1008-1018, 2015.
     
  16. Vilassante A and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Bioengineering tumors. Bioengineer 6(2):73-76, 2015
     
  17. Vilassante A and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Developing human micro-tissue platforms for cancer drug discovery. Expert Opinion in Drug Discovery 10(3):257-268, 2015.
     
  18. Yodmuang S, Marolt D, Marcos-Campos I, Gadjanski I and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Synergistic effects of hypoxia and morphogenetic factors on chondrogenic differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. Stem Cell Reviews and Reports 11(2): 228-241, 2015.
     
  19. Schlundt C, Schell H, Stuart B Goodman SB, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Duda GN and Schmidt-Bleek K. Immune Modulation as a Therapeutic Strategy in Bone Regeneration Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics 2:1, 2015.
     
  20. Nims RJ, Cigan AD, Albro MB, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Hung CT and Ateshian GA. Matrix production in large engineered cartilage constructs is enhanced by nutrient channels and excess media supply. Tissue Engineering 21(7):747-757, 2015.
     
  21. Smith KA, Arlotta P, Watt FM. The Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering Working Group, Solomon SL. Seven Actionable Strategies for Advancing Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Cell Stem Cell 16: 221-224, 2015.
     
  22. Cigan AD, Nims RJ, Albro MB, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Hung CT and Ateshian GA. Nutrient channels and stirring enhanced the composition and stiffness of large cartilage constructs. J Biomechanics 47(16):3847-3854, 2015. (cover)
     
  23. Spiller K, Freytes DO and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Immunomodulation of engineered human tissues for enhanced vascularization and healing. Annals Biomed Eng 43(3):616-627, 2015.
     
  24. Spiller KL, Nassiri S, Witherel CE, Anfang RR, Ng J, Nakazawa KR and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Sequential delivery of immunomodulatory cytokines to facilitate the M1-to-M2 transition of macrophages and enhance vascularization of bone scaffolds. Biomaterials 37:194-207, 2015.
     
  25. Bova JF, da Cunha A, Stout RW, Bhumiratana S, Eisig SB, Alfi DM, Vunjak-Novakavic G and Lopez MJ. Bupivacaine Mandibular Nerve Block in a Yucatan Miniature Swine Mandibular Condylectomy Model. Journal of Investigative Surgery 28(1):32-39, 2015.
     
  26. Yodmuang S, McNamara SL, Nover AB, Mandal BB, Agarwal M, Kelly T-A N, Chao P-hG, Hung C, Kaplan D and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Silk microfiber-reinforced silk hydrogel composites for functional cartilage tissue engineering. Acta Biomaterialia 11: 27–36, 2015.
     
  27. Tan A, Alegre-Aguarón E, O’Connell GD, VandenBerg CD, Aaron RK, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Chloe Bulinski J, Ateshian GA and Hung CT. Passage-Dependent Relationship between Mesenchymal Stem Cell Mobilization and Chondrogenic Potential. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 23: 319-327, 2015.
     
  28. Yuan X, Eng GM, Arkonac D, Chao P-h G and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Endothelial cells enhance migration of meniscus cells. Arthritis and Rheumatism 67(1):182-192, 2015.
Columbia Affiliations
Tissue Engineering Resource Center (TERC)
Columbia Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Department of Medicine
Center for Dental and Craniofacial Research
College of Dental Medicine
Columbia Stem Cell Initiative