Research Publications
Scholarly Contributions
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Research Accomplishments
$98M
in research expenditures since 2012
$1.7M
Distribution In Seed Funding To 25+ Multi-Disciplinary Teams
9
Department Challenges Organized That Brought Together 350+ Participants
Since 2012 BI Researchers Have Participated In
1000+ Publications
100,000+ Citations
150+
Inventions
98
Issued Patents
7
New Startups
Recent Publications
View a listing of the most recent BI publications here
Advanced Materials and Drug Delivery
- Feedback controlled photolytic gas phase nitric oxide delivery from S-nitrosothiol-doped silicone rubber films (S. Schwendeman)
- Long-acting reversible contraception by effervescent microneedle patch (S. Schwendeman)
- Synthetic high-density lipoprotein nanoparticles for the treatment of Niemann–Pick diseases (A. Schwendeman)
- Unique impacts of methionine oxidation, tryptophan oxidation and asparagine deamidation on antibody stability and aggregation (Tessier)
- Directed evolution methods for overcoming trade‐offs between protein activity and stability (Tessier)
- Engineered fibrillar fibronectin networks as three-dimensional tissue scaffolds (Lahann, Luker & Wicha)
- Extracellular trap‐mimicking DNA‐histone mesostructures synergistically activate dendritic cells (Moon)
- Positron emission tomography-guided photodynamic therapy with biodegradable mesoporous silica nanoparticles for personalized cancer immunotherapy (Moon)
- Predicting drug release kinetics from nanocarriers inside dialysis bags (A. Schwendeman & S. Schwendeman)
- Wettability engendered templated self-assembly (WETS) for the fabrication of biocompatible, polymer–polyelectrolyte janus particles (Tuteja)
- Multilamellar vaccine particle elicits potent immune activation with protein antigens and protects mice against ebola virus infection (Moon)
Cell and Tissue Engineering
- Cell-based therapies for alveolar bone and periodontal regeneration: Concise review (Giannobile)
- Characterization of bulk rigidity of rigid red blood cell populations in sickle cell patients using a parameterization model of ektacytometry (Eniola-Adefeso)
- Lactate-mediated epigenetic reprogramming regulates formation of human pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts (D. Nagrath)
- PLG bridge implantation in chronic SCI promotes axonal elongation and myelination (Shea)
- The effect of rigid red blood cells on platelet adhesion in blood flow and implications in sickle cell disease (Eniola-Adefeso)
- Immuno-isolating dual poly(ethylene glycol) capsule prevents cancer cells from spreading following mouse ovarian tissue auto-transplantation (Shea)
- Isolation and profiling of circulating tumor‐associated exosomes using extracellular vesicular lipid–protein binding affinity based microfluidic device (S. Nagrath)
- Macrofluidic recirculating model of skeletal metastasis (Keller)
- Model particulate drug carriers modulate leukocyte adhesion in human blood flows (Eniola-Adefeso)
- Precision health for breast cancer metastasis: biomaterial scaffolds as an engineered metastatic niche to define, study, and monitor metastatic progression (Shea & Wicha)
- Towards systems tissue engineering: elucidating the dynamics, spatial coordination, and individual cells driving emergent behaviors (Shea)
- Autogenous soft tissue grafting for periodontal and peri‐implant plastic surgical reconstruction (Giannobile)
- Biologics‐based regenerative technologies for periodontal soft tissue engineering (Giannobile)
- Extracellular matrix‐based scaffolding technologies for periodontal and peri‐implant soft tissue regeneration (Giannobile)
- High frequency spectral ultrasound imaging to detect metastasis in implanted biomaterial scaffolds (Shea)
- Living cell‐based regenerative medicine technologies for periodontal soft tissue augmentation (Giannobile)
- Microporous scaffolds loaded with immunomodulatory lentivirus to study the contribution of immune cell populations to tumor cell recruitment in vivo (Shea)
- Primary prostate cancer educates bone stroma through exosomal pyruvate kinase M2 to promote bone metastasis (Keller)
- SNV identification from single-cell RNA sequencing data (Keller)
Nanotechnology
- Dendrimer ligand directed nanoplate assembly (Glotzer)
- HOOMD-blue: A Python package for high-performance molecular dynamics and hard particle Monte Carlo simulations (Glotzer)
- Unified memory in HOOMD-blue improves node-level strong scaling (Glotzer)
- Yield stress and rheology of a self-associating chitosan solution (Solomon)
- Assessing the range of validity of current tube models through analysis of a comprehensive set of star–linear 1,4-polybutadiene polymer blends (Larson)
- Immobilization of calcium oxide onto polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibers as a heterogeneous catalyst for biodiesel production (Larson)
- Looped liquid-liquid coexistence in protein crystallization (Glotzer)
- Origin of chiroptical activity in nanorod assemblies (Kotov)
- Single- and multi-component chiral supraparticles as modular enantioselective catalysts (Kotov)
- Colloidal fibers and rings by cooperative assembly (Glotzer)
- Diverse nanoassemblies of graphene quantum dots and their mineralogical counterparts (Kotov)
Neural Engineering
- Estimating risk for future intracranial, fully implanted, modular neuroprosthetic systems: a systematic review of hardware complications in clinical deep brain stimulation and experimental human intracortical arrays (Chestek)
- Ultracompliant carbon nanotube direct bladder device (Bruns)
- Patient‐specific analysis of neural activation during spinal cord stimulation for pain (Lempka)