Laboratory for Neural Engineering
2023
Serafin A., Carsi M., Oliveira JM, Koffler J, Collins MN.3D printable electroconductive gelatin-hyaluronic acid materials containing polypyrrole nanoparticles for electroactive tissue engineering. Adv Compos Hybrid Mater 6, 109 (2023).
2022
Serafin A., Rubio MC, Carsi M., Ortiz-Serna P., Sanchis MJ, Garg AK, Oliveira JM, Koffler J, Collins MN. Electroconductive PEDOT Nanoparticle Integrated Scaffolds for Spinal Cord Tissue Repair. Biomaterials Research (2022) 26:63.
2019
Koffler J*, Zhu W , Qu X, Platoshyn O, Dulin J, Brock J, Graham L, Lu P , Sakamoto J, Marsala M , Chen S, Tuszynski MH. Biomimetic 3D printed spinal cord scaffolds for spinal cord injury. Nature Medicine, 2019, Jan. 14. * Corresponding author as well.
2018
Pawelec KM*, Koffler J*, Shahriari D, Galvan A, Tuszynski MH, Sakamoto J. Microstructure and in vivo Characterization of Multi-channel Nerve Guidance Scaffolds. Biomed Mater. 2018 Feb 7. * co-first authors.
2017
Shahriari D, Koffler J, Tuszynski MH, Campana WM, Sakamoto JS. Hierarchically Ordered Porous and High-Volume Polycaprolactone Microchannel Scaffolds Enhanced Axon Growth in Transected Spinal Cords. Tissue Eng Part A. 2017 May;23(9-10):415-425.
2016
Brock JH, Graham L., Staufenberg E., Collyer E., Koffler J., MH Tuszynski. Bone Marrow Stromal Cell Transplants Fail to Improve Motor Outcomes in a Severe Model of Spinal Cord Injury. J Neurotrauma. 2016 Jun 15;33(12):1103-14.
Shahriari D, Koffler J, Lynam DA, Tuszynski MH, Sakamoto JS. Characterizing the degradation of alginate hydrogel for use in multilumen scaffolds for spinal cord repair. J Biomed Mater Res A 2016 Mar;104(3):611-619.
2015
Lynam DA, Shahriari D., Felger KJ, Angart PA, Koffler J., Tuszynski MH, Chan C., Walton P., Sakamoto J. Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor Release from Layer-by-Layer Coated Agarose Nerve Guidance Scaffolds. Acta Biomater. 2015 May;18:128-31.
2014
Shandalov Y.*, Egozi D.*, Koffler J., Dado-Rosenfeld D., Ben-Shimol D., Shor E., Kabala A., Levenberg S., An engineered muscle flap for reconstruction of large soft tissue defects, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 2014 April 7. * Co-first authors.
Koffler J., Samara R. Rosenzweig E. Invited chapter: Using Templated Agarose Scaffolds to Promote Axon Regeneration Through Sites of Spinal Cord Injury. Methods Mol Biol. 2014;1162:157-65.
2012
Kaufman-Francis K, Koffler J, Weinberg N, Dor Y, Levenberg S, Engineered Vascular Beds Provide Key Signals to Pancreatic Hormone-Producing Cells. (2012) PLoS ONE 7(7): e40741.
2011
Lesman A., Koffler J., Atlas A., Blinder Y., Kam Z., Levenberg S. Engineering Vessel-Like Networks Within Multicellular Fibrin-Based Constructs. Biomaterials. 2011 Nov;32(31):7856-69.
Koffler J., Kaufman-Francis K., Shandalov Y., Egozi D., Amiad-Pavlov D., Landesberg A., Levenberg S. Improved vascular organization enhances functional integration of engineered skeletal muscle grafts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Sep 6;108(36):14789-94.
2010
Rivkin I., Choen K., Koffler J., Melikhov D., Peer D., Margalit R. Paclitaxel-clusters coated with hyaluronan as selective tumor-targeted nanovectors. Biomaterials 31 (2010) 7106e-7114.