Winner of the student award in the undergraduate category, 10th World Biomaterials Congress, May 17-22, 2016, Montreal QC, Canada: Evaluation of the tissue response to alginate encapsulated islets in an omentum pouch model

Design of a Bioartificial Pancreas+

(2016) Emmanuel C. Opara et al.   JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE MEDICINE

Treatment of diabetes with encapsulated pig islets: an update on current developments

(2015) Hai-tao Zhu et al.   Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE B

The role of macrophage phenotype in vascularization of tissue engineering scaffolds

(2014) Kara L. Spiller et al.   BIOMATERIALS

X-ray phase contrast imaging of calcified tissue and biomaterial structure in bioreactor engineered tissues

(2014) Alyssa A. Appel et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOENGINEERING

Overcoming immunological barriers in regenerative medicine

(2014) Johannes L Zakrzewski et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Long-Term Function of Islets Encapsulated in a Redesigned Alginate Microcapsule Construct in Omentum Pouches of Immune-Competent Diabetic Rats

(2014) Rajesh Pareta et al.   PANCREAS

Macrophage functional polarization (M1/M2) in response to varying fiber and pore dimensions of electrospun scaffolds

(2013) Koyal Garg et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Design of a Bioartificial Pancreas

(2013) Rajesh A. Pareta et al.   PATHOBIOLOGY

Impact of Alginate Composition: From Bead Mechanical Properties to Encapsulated HepG2/C3A Cell Activities for In Vivo Implantation

(2013) Stephanie H. Capone et al.   PLoS One

Alginate-Based Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine Applications

(2013) Jinchen Sun et al.   Materials

Effect of modulating macrophage phenotype on peripheral nerve repair

(2012) Nassir Mokarram et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Inducing healing-like human primary macrophage phenotypes by 3D hydrogel coated nanofibres

(2012) Matthias Bartneck et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Effect of chronic inflammation and immune response on regeneration induced by decellularized bovine pericardium

(2012) P. R. Umashankar et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Improving alginate-poly-L-ornithine-alginate capsule biocompatibility through genipin crosslinking

(2012) Anna L. Hillberg et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS

Stability of alginate microbead properties in vitro

(2012) Monica L. Moya et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE-MATERIALS IN MEDICINE

Imaging of Poly(α-hydroxy-ester) Scaffolds with X-ray Phase-Contrast Microcomputed Tomography

(2012) Alyssa A. Appel et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART C-METHODS

Biocompatibility of implants: lymphocyte/macrophage interactions

(2011) James M. Anderson et al.   Seminars in Immunopathology

New Alginate Microcapsule System for Angiogenic Protein Delivery and Immunoisolation of Islets for Transplantation in the Rat Omentum Pouch

(2011) J.P. McQuilling et al.   TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS

Biocompatibility and physicochemical characteristics of alginate–polycation microcapsules

(2010) S.K. Tam et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Synthesis of multilayered alginate microcapsules for the sustained release of fibroblast growth factor-1

(2010) Omaditya Khanna et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A

Macrophage phenotype and remodeling outcomes in response to biologic scaffolds with and without a cellular component

(2009) Bryan N. Brown et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Macrophage Phenotype as a Determinant of Biologic Scaffold Remodeling

(2008) Stephen F. Badylak et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A