# overview
My research is in biomaterials, with an emphasis on biocompatibility and applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry

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4.1 Discovery And Preclinical Testing Of Markers And Technologies

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5201 Applied And Developmental Psychology

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Stem Cell Research - Nonembryonic - Human

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Health Disparities And Racial Or Ethnic Minority Health Research

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Clemson University - (Clemson, South Carolina, United States)

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Purdue University - (West Lafayette, Indiana, United States)

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University of Colorado Boulder - (Boulder, Colorado, United States)

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Association of Former Students University-Level Distinguished Achievement Award, The

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Compressive loading causes unique mechanism of failure in second generation sliding hip screw

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Dynamically Cross-Linked Granular Hydrogels for 3D Printing and Therapeutic Delivery.

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Clickable PEG hydrogel microspheres as building blocks for 3D bioprinting.

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Effects of DCPD cement chemistry on degradation properties and cytocompatibility: comparison of MCPM/-TCP and MCPM/HA formulations.

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Enzyme-functionalized alginate microparticles enable anaerobic culture under ambient oxygen.

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Granular Biphasic Colloidal Hydrogels for 3D Bioprinting.

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A microfluidic method for creating poly(Ethylene glycol) gradient microgel scaffolds to modulate human mesenchymal stem cell behavior

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Microparticle Hydrogel Material Properties Emerge from Mixing-Induced Homogenization in a Poly(ethylene glycol) and Dextran Aqueous Two-Phase System

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Direct measurement of matrix metalloproteinase activity in 3D cellular microenvironments using a fluorogenic peptide substrate.

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Coumarin-Based Photodegradable Hydrogel: Design, Synthesis, Gelation, and Degradation Kinetics.

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Corrigendum to 2D Nanosilicate for additive manufacturing: Rheological modifier, sacrificial ink and support bath Bioprinting [Bioprinting 25 (2022) e00187]

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Rat dental pulp-derived stem cells display greater proliferative and osteogenic potential than bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells from the same donor rat

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Facile and efficient Lewis acid catalyzed synthesis of an asymmetric tetrazine useful for bio-orthogonal click chemistry applications.

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Interplay between degradability and integrin signaling on mesenchymal stem cell function within porous poly(Ethylene glycol) microgel scaffolds

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Clickable Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds for Delivery of Neural Progenitor Cells to Sites of Spinal Cord Injury.

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Sequential Thiol-Ene and Tetrazine Click Reactions for the Polymerization and Functionalization of Hydrogel Microparticles.

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Glucose biosensors based on Michael addition crosslinked poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels with chemo-optical sensing microdomains.

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Comparison of Photo Cross Linkable Gelatin Derivatives and Initiators for Three-Dimensional Extrusion Bioprinting.

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Synthesis and characterization of hydrogel microsphere matrices with tunable bioactivity using click chemistry

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The anti-peg immune response: Fact, fiction, or a legitimate concern for biomaterials?

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Bioengineered Scaffolds for Axonal Regeneration

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In vitro degradation and cytocompatibility of dicalcium phosphate dihydrate cements prepared using the monocalcium phosphate monohydrate/hydroxyapatite system reveals rapid conversion to HA as a key mechanism.

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Orthogonal click reactions enable the synthesis of ECM-mimetic PEG hydrogels without multi-arm precursors.

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ChemInform Abstract: TwoDimensional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects

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Characterization of dicalcium phosphate dihydrate cements prepared using a novel hydroxyapatite-based formulation.

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Development of Niobium Oxide Coatings on Sand-Blasted Titanium Alloy Dental Implants

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Microporous Bio-orthogonally Annealed Particle Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.

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Bio-inspired 3D microenvironments: a new dimension in tissue engineering.

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Generalizing hydrogel microparticles into a new class of bioinks for extrusion bioprinting.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Bio-orthogonal, Site-Selective Conjugation of Recombinant Proteins to Microporous Annealed Particle Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering.

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Clickable, photodegradable hydrogels to dynamically modulate valvular interstitial cell phenotype.

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Mechanically Stiff Nanocomposite Hydrogels at Ultralow Nanoparticle Content.

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Brillouin Spectroscopy: A Non-Invasive Method for Assessing the Viscoelastic Properties of Biologically Relevant Polymers.

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Creating Physicochemical Gradients in Modular Microporous Annealed Particle Hydrogels via a Microfluidic Method.

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Poly(Ethylene glycol) click hydrogels with embedded sensing microdomains for a long-term, implantable biosensor

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Polymer-Coated Extracellular Vesicles for Selective Codelivery of Chemotherapeutics and siRNA to Cancer Cells.

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Additive concentration effects on dicalcium phosphate dihydrate cements prepared using monocalcium phosphate monohydrate and hydroxyapatite.

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Process for Faculty-Driven, Data-Informed Curriculum Continuity Review in Biomedical Engineering

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Shooting for the moon: using tissue-mimetic hydrogels to gain new insight on cancer biology and screen therapeutics

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Seeing deep to map cell-biomaterial interactions via whole mount light sheet imaging and automated analytics in decellularized extracellular matrix models.

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Interplay between degradability and integrin signaling on mesenchymal stem cell function within poly(ethylene glycol) based microporous annealed particle hydrogels.

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Supramolecular Click Product Interactions Induce Dynamic Stiffening of Extracellular Matrix-Mimetic Hydrogels.

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Assembly of PEG Microgels into Porous Cell-Instructive 3D Scaffolds via Thiol-Ene Click Chemistry.

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A Diels-Alder modulated approach to control and sustain the release of dexamethasone and induce osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells.

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2D Nanosilicate for additive manufacturing: Rheological modifier, sacrificial ink and support bath

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Evaluation of In Situ Assembled Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds for Neural Progenitor Cells Delivery in a Severe Spinal Cord Injury Model

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Osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells on 5 integrin binding peptide hydrogels is dependent on substrate elasticity (vol 2, pg 352, 2014)

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Development of a Maleimide Amino Acid for Use as a Tool for Peptide Conjugation and Modification

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Mechanical stimulation and intermittent parathyroid hormone treatment induce disproportional osteogenic, geometric, and biomechanical effects in growing mouse bone.

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Thiol-ene Photoclick chemistry as an approach for user directed covalent tethering of bioactive proteins to synthetic hydrogel scaffolds

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Swellable and Thermally Responsive Hydrogel/Shape Memory Polymer Foam Composites for Sealing Lung Biopsy Tracts.

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Tetrazine Click Annealed Map Hydrogels as in Situ Forming Scaffolds to Regenerate Bone Defects

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Blood vessel wall-derived endothelial colony-forming cells enhance fracture repair and bone regeneration.

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Impact of Annealing Chemistry on the Properties and Performance of Microporous Annealed Particle Hydrogels.

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Enzyme functionalized microgels enable precise regulation of dissolved oxygen and anaerobe culture.

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Hydrogel Synthesis and Stabilization via Tetrazine Click-Induced Secondary Interactions.

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Shape Memory Polymer Foam/PEG Hydrogel Composite Lung Biopsy Sealants with Multimodal Contrast

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Impact of PEG sensitization on the efficacy of PEG hydrogel-mediated tissue engineering.

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Editorial: Approaches That Foster a Pro-Regenerative Environment.

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Convergence research in matrix biology and biomaterials science.

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Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications: Emerging Trends and Future Prospects.

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Photocontrolled nanoparticles for on-demand release of proteins.

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Bioprinting 101: Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of Cell-Laden 3D Bioprinted Scaffolds.

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Birds of a Feather Self-Regulate Together: The Intersection of Peer Networks and Self-Regulated Learning in Biomedical Engineering

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Osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells on 5 integrin binding peptide hydrogels is dependent on substrate elasticity.

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Development of optimal in vitro release and permeation testing method for rectal suppositories.

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Calcium phosphate cement reinforcement by polymer infiltration and in situ curing: a method for 3D scaffold reinforcement.

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Poly(propylene fumarate) reinforced dicalcium phosphate dihydrate cement composites for bone tissue engineering.

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ChemInform Abstract: Facile and Efficient Lewis Acid Catalyzed Synthesis of an Asymmetric Tetrazine Useful for BioOrthogonal Click Chemistry Applications.

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Donor-matched comparison of dental pulp stem cells and bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells in a rat model.

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Synthetically tractable click hydrogels for three-dimensional cell culture formed using tetrazine-norbornene chemistry.

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Assessing hydrogel viscoelastic properties using spontaneous Brillouin scattering

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SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Decision-making and Development of A 3D Printing-based Meniscus Transplantation System

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National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States)

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Development of a minimally invasive optical biosensor to improve hyperphosphatemia management

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Osteoinductive Microgel-Based Scaffolds for hMSC Delivery

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

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Effects of Poly(ethylene glycol) Immunogenicity on Implant Biocompatibility

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Impact of the Anti-PEG Response on the Efficacy of PEG Hydrogel-Mediated Bone Regeneration

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

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Neurobiological Control of Periodontal Homeostasis through MicroRNA, TGF-beta, and Wnt Signaling

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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DHHS-NIH-National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

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ALTERING THE IMMUNE LANDSCAPE TO AUGMENT BONE REGENERATION (Alge, Daniel)

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National Institutes of Health - (Bethesda, Maryland, United States)

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Texas A&M University; Biomedical Engineering; 3120 TAMU

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Researchers Explore Hydrogels That Are Promising Materials For Delivering Theraputic Cells

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Cereceres, Stacy Nicole (2018-12). Development of Hydrogel Wound Dressings for Chronic Wound Healing. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Xin, Shangjing (2019-12). Assembly of Microgel Building Blocks into Cell-instructive Microporous Annealed Particle Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Jivan, Faraz (2019-12). Sequential Click Reactions To Synthesize And Functionalize Hydrogel Biomaterials. Doctoral Dissertation.