My research is centered around developing cell-printing methods to produce two-and three-dimensional structures for tissue-engineering applications
Original Publications
Electrophysiological characterization of embryonic hippocampal neurons cultured in a 3D collagen hydrogel (with Tao Xu, Peter Molnar, Gregory Cassie, Mainak Das, and Jay J. Hickman), Biomaterials (2009)
Rat embryonic hippocampal neurons were cultured in (1) 3D collagen hydrogels as 'entrapped' evenly distributed...
Fabrication and characterization of bio-engineered cardiac pseudo tissues (with Tao Xu, Catalin Baicu, Michael Aho, and Michael Zile), Biofabrication (2009)
We report to fabricate functional three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs by using an inkjet based bio-prototyping...
Human microvasculature fabrication using thermal inkjet printing technology (with Xiaofeng Cui), Biomaterials (2009)
The current tissue engineering paradigm is that successfully engineered thick tissues must include vasculature. As...
Loading dependent swelling and release properties of novel biodegradable, elastic and environmental stimuli-sensitive polyurethanes (with Changhong Zhang, Kejia Zhao, TJ Hu, Xiaofeng Cui, and Nathan Brown), J Control Release (2008)
A novel degradable, elastic, anionic, and linear polyurethane was synthesized from hexamethylene diisocyanate, polycaprolactone diol,...
Synthesis and characterization of biodegradable elastomeric polyurethane scaffolds fabricated by the inkjet technique.” (with Changhong Zhang, Xuejun Wen, and Narendra R. Vyavahare), Biomaterials (2008)
Biodegradable polyurethanes (PUs) were synthesized from methylene di-p-phenyl-diisocyanate (MDI), polycaprolactone diol (PCL-diol) and N,N-bis (2-hydorxyethyl)-2-aminoethane-sulfonic...
Review Papers
Application of Inkjet Printing to Tissue Engineering (with Tao Xu, Brook Damon, and Xiaofeng Cui), Biotechnology J (2006)
ecent advances in organ printing technology for applications relating to medical interventions and organ replacement...
Organ printing: computer aided jet based 3D tissue engineering (with Vladimir Mironov, Thomas Trusk, Gabor Forgacs, and Roger R. Markwald), Trends Biotechnol (2003)
Tissue engineering technology promises to solve the organ transplantation crisis. However, assembly of vascularized 3D...