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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
622 West 168th Street
Vanderbilt Clinic, 12th floor, room VC12-234
New York, NY 10032

Phone: +1 212-305-2304
Fax: +1 212-305-4692
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Education

  • 1980 Ph.D, Chemical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia 
  • 1986-1987 Fulbright Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 


academic POSITIONS

  • 2005-present   Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York NY
  • 2005-present   Director, Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering
  • 2007-present   Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York NY
  • 2007-present   Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Dental and Craniofacial Bioengineering (in Dentistry), College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University, New York NY
  • 2002 - present Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford MA
  • 2005–present Visiting Scientist, Div. of Health Sciences and Technology, M.I.T., Cambridge MA
  • 1993-  Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
  • 1999 – 2005    Principal Research Scientist, Div. of Health Sciences and Technology, M.I.T., Cambridge MA 
  • 1993-1998 Research Scientist, Whitaker College, Massachuestts Insitute of Technology, Cambridge MA
  • 1987-1992 Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia
 

Awards/Honors (selected)

  • 2008   Hall of Fame, Women in Technology (one of 5 leaders in science and technology in 2008)
  • 2008 US Section Head for the Musculoskeletal Repair & Regeneration Section in the Faculty 1000 of Medicine
  • 2007  Director’s lecture, NIH, October 17, 2007; the first woman engineer to receive this distinction (the lecture and discussion can be viewed at http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=3&s=31)  
  • 2007-2012 Editor, new series of Biomedical Engineering books, John Wiley 
  • 2007 Keystone Symposium on tissue engineering and Developmental Biology (D4), Chair and organizer (the symposium ranked #6 among all Keystone symposia in the last year)
  • 2006 Editor,Tissue Engineering journal, special issue: Tissue engineering - the next generation, December 2006
  • 2005  The Association of Orthopedic Research, Switzerland; team award “for the best science in orthopaedics” (with L. Meinel, L. Ziechner, R. Fajardo and D. Kaplan)
  • 2005 Boston Museum of Science: “Tissue engineering and the challenges of imitating nature,” evening with the research group, live televised event, March 18, 2005 
  • 2005: Biography in the book Extraordinary Women Engineers by Kendall Andersen (in press, February 2006); photograph on the book cover     
  • 2003-2007   Space Life Sciences Council
  • 2003 Outstanding Performance Medal, World Congress of In Vitro Biology
  • 2004-present Faculty of 1000 Medicine (http://www.f1000medicine.com), Regenerative Medicine Section 
  • 2003-2005 Four NASA awards for bioengineering patents 
  • 2000 - present,  American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Elected Fellow 
  • 2000: Outstanding performance certificate, NASA, Ames Research Center
  • 1997 Medal of recognition, Centennial of the Serbian Chemical Society

Professional Activities (selected)

  • 2009 Course Co-Director, Cell Therapy for Cradiovascular Disease, New York NY, January 14-16, 2009
  • 2009 The 5th Annual International Conference on Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Diseases. Conference co-director. New York NY, Jan 14-16, 2009
  • 2008 Executive Committee of the Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) of the Dean of Medicine, formed to foster collaborations in cardiovascular studies, recruitment of faculty, and dedicating a building for the CVRI
  • 2008 - 2010 Chair, NIH Study section on Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI)
  • 2008 NIAMS Board of Scientific Councilors, January 22-23, 2008
  • 2008 Cardiovascular Research & Technology (CRT) 2009 March 4-6, Washington D.C. Course Co-Director 
  • 2008 Stem Cell Day, Columbia University, May 5, 2008. Co-organizer, Team leader for Tissue Engineering, imaging and technologies
  • 2008 NIH workshop on Transforming Regenerative Medicine, Chair of the “3D models” session, Washington DC, May 19-20, 2008 
  • 2008  Cardiovascular Revascularization Therapies, February 11-13, 2008, Washington DC, Course co-director
  • 2008 NIBIB workshop Bioengineering and Imaging Research Opportunities BIROW V, January 17-18, 2008, Bethesda
  • 2008  Course Co-Director, The 4th Annual International Conference on Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Diseases. New York City, January 16-18, 2008
  • 2008 Chair and organizer, Tissue Engineering Session, The 4th Annual International Conference on Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular Diseases. New York NY, Jan 16-18, 2008
  • 2008 Course Co-Director, Angiomyogenesis & Cell Therapy, Washington DC, Feb. 12-13, 2008
  • 2007, 2008 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Special Emphasis Panel 
  • 2006 - 2010 Permanent member, NIH Study section on Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI)
  • 2006 Chair, NIH Special Emphasis Scientific Review Group 2007/01 ZRG1 CVS-P (50) (S), November 20-21, 2006
  • 2005 - present, Editorial Board, Tissue Engineering 
  • 2005 Chair, World Congress of In Vitro biology, Baltimore, MD 
  • 2005 Workshop on the future directions of NIBIB. Atlanta GA, June 2005, resulted in Enabling Technologies RFA
  • 2005 Convener and Chair (with David Kaplan) of Tissue Engineering 2020, workshop for the National Institutes of Health
  • 2004 Society for In Vitro Biology, Board of Directors  
  • 2004 Expert group for the assessment of bioengineering needs in Vietnam, National Science Foundation 
  • 2003 - present, Founder & Board of Directors, Greenfuel, Cambridge MA
  • 2003-2004 Tufts University Dental School, External Advisory Board  
  • 1996-97 Space study of cartilage tissue engineering aboard Mir (with NASA Johnson Space Center and L. E. Freed as the PI)
  • 1996 Scientific oversight of the development and testing of the cell culture system for the International Space Station

 

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (SELECTED)

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow
  • Association of Fulbright Scholars
  • American Chemical Society
  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • Biomaterials Research Society
  • Biomedical Engineering Society
  • European Tissue Engineering Society
  • Orthopaedic Research Society
  • Society for in vitro Biology (Cellular Toxicology Section, Chair, 2000-2004)
  • Society for in vitro Biology (Board of Directors, 2002-2006)
  • Society for Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine
  • TERMIS (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society)

Books

  • Vunjak-Novakovic G. and I. Freshney: Culture of cells for tissue engineering. J. Wiley 2006 
  •  Mao JJ, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Mikos A and Atala A (Editors) Translational Approaches in Tissue Engineering Artech House (in press 2007)
  

Publications (seleCted from >240)

  • Vunjak-Novakovic G., G. Jovanovic, Lj. Kundakovic and B. Obradovic, Flow Regimes and Liquid Mixing in a Draft Tube Gas-Liquid-Solid Fluidized Bed, Chemical Engineering Science, 47 (13-14), 3451-3458, 1992.
  • Freed, L.E., G. Vunjak-Novakovic and R. Langer, Cultivation of Cell-Polymer Cartilage Implants in Bioreactors, Journal of Cell Biochemistry 51, 257-264, 1993
  • Bugarski B., Q. Li, M.F.A. Goosen, D. Poncelet, R. Neufeld G. Vunjak-Novakovic, Electrostatic Droplet Generation: Mechanism of Polymer Droplet Formation, Journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 40 (6) 913-1092, 1994.
  • Freed, L.E., G. Vunjak-Novakovic, R. Biron, D. Eagles, D. Lesnoy, S. Barlow and R. Langer, Biodegradable Polymer Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering, Bio/Technology (precursor of Nature Biotechnology) 12, 689-693, 1994.
  • Vunjak-Novakovic, G., L.E. Freed, R.J. Biron and R. Langer, Effects of Mixing on Tissue Engineered Cartilage, Journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 42 (3) 850-860, 1996.
  • Freed, L.E., Langer, R., Martin, I., Pellis, N., Vunjak-Novakovic, G. Tissue engineering of cartilage in space, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol. 94: 13885-13890, 1997; commentary in same issue on pp. 13380-13382.
  • Vunjak-Novakovic G., Obradovic B., Bursac P., Martin I., Langer R., Freed L.E., Dynamic Seeding of Polymer Scaffolds for Cartilage Tissue Engineering, Biotechnology Progress 14: 193-202, 1998.
  • Freed, L.E., Hollander, A.P., Martin, I., Barry, J.R., Martin, I., Vunjak-Novakovic, G. Chondrogenesis in a Cell-Polymer-Bioreactor System, Experimental Cell Research 240: 58-65, 1998.
  • Riesle J., Hollander A.P., Langer R., Freed L.E. and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Collagen in Tissue Engineered Cartilage: Types, Structure and Crosslinks. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 71: 313-327 1998.
  • Vunjak-Novakovic G., Martin I., Obradovic B., Treppo S., Grodzinsky A.J., Langer R., Freed L. Bioreactor Cultivation Conditions Modulate the Composition and Mechanical Properties of Tissue Engineered Cartilage, Journal of Orthopedic Research 17: 130-138, 1999.
  • Carrier R., Papadaki M., Rupnick M., Schoen F.J., Bursac N., Langer R., Freed L.E, Vunjak-Novakovic G. Cardiac Tissue Engineering: Cell Seeding, Cultivation Parameters and Tissue Construct Characterization, Biotechnology and Bioengineering 64: 580-589, 1999.
  • Bursac N., Papadaki M., Cohen R.J., Schoen F.J., Eisenberg S.R., Carrier R., Vunjak-Novakovic G., Freed L.E. Cardiac Muscle Tissue Engineering: Towards an In Vitro Model for Electrophysiological Studies. American Journal of Physiology 277 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 46): H433-H444, 1999.
  • Martin I., Obradovic B., Freed L.E., Vunjak-Novakovic G. A Method for Quantitative Analysis of Glycosaminoglycan Distribution in Cultured Natural and Engineered Cartilage. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 27 (5) 1-7, 1999.
  • Martin I., Obradovic B., Treppo S., Grodzinsky A., Langer R., Freed L.E., Vunjak-Novakovic G. Modulation of the mechanical properties of tissue engineered cartilage. Biorheology 37: 141-147, 2000.
  • Obradovic B., Meldon J.H., Freed L.E., Vunjak-Novakovic G. Glycosaminoglycan deposition in tissue engineered cartilage: experiments and mathematical model. Journal of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 46: 1860-1871, 2000.
  • Schaefer, D., Martin, I., Shastri, P., Padera, R.F., Langer, R., Freed, L.E. and Vunjak-Novakovic, G. In vitro generation of osteochondral composites. Biomaterials 21 (24): 2599-2606, 2000.
  • Papadaki, M. , Bursac, N. , Langer, R., Merok, J., Vunjak-Novakovic, G., Freed, L.E. Tissue Engineering of Functional Cardiac Muscle: Molecular, Structural and Electrophysiological Evaluations American Journal of Physiology, Heart Circ Physiol 280: H168-H178, 2001 (cover article)
  • Martin I., Shastri V.P., Padera R.F., Yang J., Mackay A.J., Langer R., Vunjak-Novakovic G., Freed L.E. Selective differentiation of mammalian mesenchymal progenitor cells cultured on three-dimensional polymer foams. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research 55: 229-235, 2001.
  • Martin, I., Suetterlin, R., Baschong, W., Heberer, M., Vunjak-Novakovic, G., and Freed, L.E. Enhanced Cartilage Tissue Engineering by Sequential Exposure of Chondrocytes to FGF-2 During 2D Expansion and BMP-2 During 3D Cultivation. J Cellular Biochemistry 83: 121-128, 2001.
  • Obradovic B., Martin, I., Padera, R.F., Treppo, S. , Freed, L.E., and Vunjak-Novakovic, G. Integration of engineered cartilage. Journal of Orthopedic Research 19 (6): 1089-1097, 2001.
  • Carrier RL, Rupnick M, Langer R, Schoen FJ, Freed LE and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Perfusion improves tissue architecture of engineered cardiac muscle. Tissue Engineering 8 (2) 175-188, 2002.
  • Altman, G., Horan, R.L., Martin, I., Farhadi J., Stark, P.R.H., Volloch, V., Richmond, J.C., Vunjak-Novakovic, G., Kaplan, D.L. Cell Differentiation by Mechanical Stress. FASEB J. 16(2): 270-272, 2002.
  • Carrier RL, Rupnick M, Langer R, Schoen FJ, Freed LE and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Effects of oxygen on engineered cardiac muscle. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 78 (6): 616-624, 2002. 
  • Schaefer D., Martin I., Jundt G., Seidel J., Heberer M., Grodzinsky A., Bergin I., Vunjak-Novakovic G., Freed L.E. Tissue engineered composites for the repair of large osteochondral defects. Arthritis and Rheumatism 46(9): 2524-2534 (2002)
  • Pei M, Solchaga LA, Seidel J, Zeng L, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Caplan AI, Freed LE. Bioreactors mediate the effectiveness of tissue engineering scaffolds. FASEB J. 16: 1691-1694, 2002.
  • Madry H, R Padera, J Seidel, R Langer, LE Freed, SB Trippel and G Vunjak-Novakovic. Gene transfer of a human insulin-like growth factor I cDNA enhances tissue engineering of cartilage. Human Gene Therapy 13(13): 1621-1630, 2002.
  • Altman GH, Stark P, Lu HH, Horan RL, Calabro T, Martin I, Ryder D, Richmond JC, Vunjak-Novakovic G and DL Kaplan. Advanced bioreactor with multi-dimensional strain and biomimetic capability for tissue engineering. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 124: 742-749, 2002.
  • Radisic M., Euloth M., Yang L., Langer R., Freed L.E., Vunjak-Novakovic G. High density seeding of myocyte cells for tissue engineering. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 82: 403-414, 2003.
  • Meinel L, Kareourgiou V, Fajardo R, Snyder B, Shinde-Patil V, Zichner L, Kaplan D, Langer R and Vunjak-Novakovic G, Bone tissue engineering using human mesenchymal stem cells: effects of scaffold material and medium flow. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 32: 112-122, 2004.
  • Radisic M., Yang L., Boublik J., Cohen R.J., Langer R., Freed L.E., Vunjak-Novakovic G. Medium perfusion enables engineering of compact and contractile cardiac tissue. American Journal of Physiology 286: H507–H516, 2004.
  • Vunjak-Novakovic G, Altman G and Kaplan D. Tissue engineering of ligaments. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering 6:131-156 (2004)
  • Meinel L, R Fajardo, S Hofmann, R Langer, J Chen, B Snyder, G Vunjak-Novakovic, and DL Kaplan. Silk implants for healing critical size cranial defects. Bone 37(5): 688-698, 2005.  
  • Radisic M., Park H., Shing H., Consi T., Schoen F., Langer R., Freed L.E., Vunjak-Novakovic G. Functional assembly of engineered myocardium by electrical stimulation of cardiac myocytes cultured on scaffolds Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(52):18129-18134 (2004) (cover article)
  • Radisic M, Deen W, Langer R and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Mathematical model of oxygen distribution in engineered cardiac tissue with parallel channel array perfused with culture medium supplemented with synthetic oxygen carriers American Journal of Physiology 288: H1278 - H1289 (2005)
  • Kaplan DL, Moon R and Vunjak-Novakovic G. It takes a village to grow a tissue. Nature Biotechnology 23 (10): 1237-1239, 2005 
  • Gerecht-Nir S, Radisic M, Park H, Boublik J, Cannizzaro C, Langer R, Vunjak-Novakovic G. Biophysical regulation of cardiogenesis. International Journal of Developmental Biology 50(2-3):233-43, 2006.  
  • Karp JM, Yeo Y, Geng W, Cannizarro C, Yan K, Kohane DS, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Langer R and Radisic M. A Photolithographic Method to Create Cellular Micropatterns. Biomaterials 27(28): 4993-5002, 2006. 
  • Murthy SK, Sethu, P, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Toner M. and Radisic M. Size-Based Microfluidic Fractionation of Neonatal Rat Cardiac Cells. Biomedical Microdevices 8(3):231-237, 2006. 
  • Meinel L, Betz O, Fajardo R, Hofmann S, Nazarian A, Hilbe M, McCool J, Langer R, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Merkle HP, Rechenberg B, Kaplan DL, Kirker-Head C Silk-based biomaterials for the healing of critical-size long bone defects. Bone 39(4):922-931, 2006. 
  •  Marolt D, Augst A, Vepari C, Farley M, Fajardo R, Patel N, Gray ML, Freed LE, Kaplan DL and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Bone and cartilage tissue constructs grown using human bone marrow stromal cells, silk scaffolds and rotating bioreactors. Biomaterials 27(36): 6138-6149, 2006. 
  • Wang Y, Kim H-J, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Kaplan DL. Stem cell based tissue engineering with silk biomaterials. Review article. Biomaterials, special issue on Stem Cells 27(36): 6064-6082, 2006
  • Vunjak-Novakovic G. Transplants made to order, The Scientist 20(9): 35-41, 2006. 
  • Radisic M, Park H, Chen F, Wang Y, Dennis R, Langer R, Freed LE and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Biomimetic approach to cardiac tissue engineering: Oxygen carriers and channeled scaffolds Tissue Engineering 12 (8): 2077-2091, 2006 (Cover article) Editors choice, Drug Discovery April 2007. 
  • Vunjak-Novakovic G. and Kaplan DL. Tissue engineering – the next generation. Editorial. Tissue Engineering 12(12) 3261-3264, 2006. 
  • Ingber D, Mow VC, Butler D, Niklason L, Huard J, Mao JJ, Yannas I, Kaplan DL and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Tissue Engineering and Developmental Biology: Going Biomimetic. Tissue Engineering 12(12) 3265-3284, 2006. 
  • Freed LE, Guilak F, Guo XE 3, Gray ML, Tranquillo R, Holmes J, Radisic M, Sefton MV, Kaplan DL and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Advanced Tools: Scaffolds, Bioreactors, Signaling. Tissue Engineering 12(12) 3285-3306, 2006. 
  • Mikos A, Herring S, Elisseeff JE, Lu H, Kandel R, Schoen FJ, Toner M, Mooney DL, Atala A, Kaplan DL and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Engineering Complex Tissues. Tissue Engineering 12(12) 3307-3340, 2006. 
  • Hunziker E, Spector M, Libera J, Gertzman A, Woo S L-Y, Ratcliffe A, Lysaght M, Coury A, Kaplan DL and Vunjak-Novakovic G. From Research to Applications: Translation. Tissue Engineering 12(12) 3241-3364, 2006.  
  • Khademhosseini A, Eng G, Yeh J, Kucharczyk S, Langer R, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Radisic M. Microfluidic patterning for fabrication of contractile cardiac organoids. Biomedical Microdevices 9(2): 149-157, 2007. 
  • Ferreira L, Gercht-Nir S, Shieh H, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Langer R. Bioactive hydrogel scaffolds for controllable vascular differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. Biomaterials 28(17): 2706-2717 (2007) Highlighted in Materials Today: “Hydrogels make stem cells differentiate” 10(5): 10 (May 2007) 
  • Ferreira L, Gerecht-Nir S, Shieh H, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Langer R.Vascular progenitor cells isolated from human embryonic stem cells Circulation Research E published June 14, 2007. 
  • Radisic M, Park H, Gerecht-Nir S, Cannizzaro C, Langer R., Vunjak-Novakovic G. Biomimetic approach to cardiac tissue engineering. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London – Biological Sciences 362(1484):1357-1368, 2007. 
  • Figallo E., Cannizzaro C, Gerecht-Nir S, Burdick J, Langer R, Elvassore N and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Microbioreactor for controlled differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. Lab on a Chip7 (6): 710 - 719, 2007. Cover article. 
  • Gerecht S, Burdick JA, Ferreira LS, Townsend SA, Langer R. and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Propagation of undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells in hyaluronic acid hydrogels. PNAS 104(27): 11298-11303, 2007. 
  • Gerecht S, Bettinger CJ, Zhang Z, Borenstein J, Vunjak-Novakovic G, Langer R. The effect of actin disrupting agents on contact guidance of human embryonic stem cells.. Biomaterials 28(28):4068-4077, 2007. 
  • Chao PhG, Grayson W and  Vunjak-Novakovic G. Engineering cartilage and bone using human mesenchymal stem cells. Journal of Orthopaedic Science 12(4):398-404. 2007. 
  • Lovett M, Cannizzaro C, Daheron L, Messmer B, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Kaplan DL. Silk fibroin microtubes for blood vessel engineering. Biomaterials 28(35):5271-5279, 2007.  
  • Gerecht S, Cannizzaro C, Figallo E, Elvassore N, and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Bioreactors for the 3D cultivation of human embryonic stem cells. Human Embryonic Stem Cells (ed. J. Masters, B. Palsson, J. Thomson), Human Cell Culture Series, Springer Verlag, Ch. 9, pp. 149-172, 2007.       
  • Jakab K, Damon B, Marga F, Neagu A, Besch-Williford CL, Kachurin A, Park H, Mironov V, Markwald R, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Forgacs G. Tissue engineering by self-assembly of cells printed into topologically defined structures. Tissue Engineering 14(3):413-421, 2008.
  • Augst A, Marolt D, Vepari C, Meinel L, Farley M, Fajardo R, Patel, N, Gray ML, Freed LE, Kaplan DL and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Composite bone-cartilage tissue constructs grown using human bone marrow stromal cells, silk scaffolds and rotating bioreactors. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 5(25):929-939, 2008.
  • Grayson WL, Chao GP, Marolt D, Kaplan DL and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Engineering custom designed osteochondral tissue grafts. Trends in Biotechnology 26(4): 181-189 (2008)
  • Radisic M, Marsano A, Maidhof R, Wang Y and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Perfusion bioreactors for controlling cellular environments. Nature Protocols 3 (4): 719-738, 2008
  • Grayson WL, Bhumiratana S, Cannizzaro C, Chao GP, Lennon D, Caplan AI and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Effects of initial seeding density and fluid perfusion rate on formation of tissue-engineered bone. Tissue Engineering Part A. 2008 Jul 11. [Epub ahead of print] 
  • Burdick JA and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Engineered microenvironments for controlled stem cell differentiation. Lead article for the special issue of Tissue Engineering on Technologies for enhancing tissue engineering: Materials and environments for guiding stem cell function. Tissue Eng Part A. 2008 Aug 11. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Radisic, M Fast V, Sharifov O, Iyer RK, Park H andVunjak-Novakovic G. Optical mapping of impulse propagation in an engineered cardiac tissue. Tissue Eng Part A. 2008 Oct 10. [Epub ahead of print]
  •  Lovett M, Cannizzaro C, Vunjak-Novakovic G and Kaplan DL Gel spinning of silk tubes for tissue engineering Biomaterials 29: 4650-4657, 2008
  • Vunjak-Novakovic G. Patterning stem cell differentiation. Cell Stem Cell 3(4): 362-363, 2008
  • Tandon N, Cannizzaro C, Chao P-hG, Marsano A, Maidhof R, Au H, Radisic M, and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Electrical field stimulation of cultured cells and tissues Nature Protocols (in press)
  • Cimetta E, Cannizzaro C, Elvasore N. and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Microarray bioreactors for steady-state and transient studies of stem cells. Tissue Engineering – Methods (in press)
  • Godier AFG, Marolt D, Gerecht S, Tajnsek U, Martens TP and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Engineered microenvironments for human stem cells. Birth Defects Research Part C: Embryo Today (in press)
  • Martens TP, Godier AFG, Parks JJ, Wan Q, Koeckdrt MS, Eng GM, Hudso BJ, Sherman W and Vunjak-Novakovic G. Percutaneous Cell Delivery into the Heart using Hydrogels Polymerizing in situ. Cell Transplantation (in press)

 

 

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RESEARCH INTERESTS Tissue engineering, human stem cells (adult and embryonic), advanced bioreactors, biophysical regulation of cell function and tissue development