This page collects the publications and presentations of the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

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Publications from 2026

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The effects of membrane structure and filtration conditions on virus filtration, Wenbo Xu, Xianghong Qian, Hironobu Shirataki, Daniel Strauss, and Sumith R. Wickramasinghe

Publications from 2025

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In vitro comparative study of composite coatings for magnesium-based bone implants, Abdelrahman Amin, Bryce Williams, Thomas McGehee, Alyssandra Navarro, Vipul Patil, Mostafa Elsaadany, and Hanna Ibrahim

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Characterizing Piezoelectric-Blended Polydimethylsiloxane for Use as a Mechanoelectrical Responsive Cell Culture Substrate, Alexis P. Applequist, Lance D. Cordes, Lais A. Ferreira, and Kartik Balachandran

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Elastically Deformable Components And Assemblies For Use In Cellular Assays, Kartik Balachandran and Nasya Moriah Sturdivant

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Patient Specific Medical Balloon Forming Machine And System, Maxwell Bean, Morten O. Jensen, Barry Uretsky, and Kaitlyn M. Elmer

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Quantifying treatment response to a macrophage-targeted therapy in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors after exposure to conventional chemotherapy, Shelby N. Bess, Gaven K. Smart, and Timothy J. Muldoon

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Pancreatic cancer extracellular vesicles stimulate Schwann cell activation and perineural invasion in vitro via IL-8/CCL2, Emory Gregory, Isabel Powers, Azemat Jamshidi-Parsian, Robert J. Griffin, and Younghye Song

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Fabrication of Multimodal Anion Exchange Membrane for Chromatographic Purification of Full Adeno-Associated Viral Capsids, Xiaolei Hao, Sumith Ranil Wickramasinghe, and Xianghong Qian

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Targeted Delivery of Rapamycin via Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors in Pancreatic Cancer Cells Inhibits Cell Proliferation and Induces Apoptosis, Adeolu S. Oluremi, Christofer Baldwin, Nickolas L. Gustavision, Mujeebat Bashiru, Adeniyi Nsiah Oyebade, Noureen Siraj, Raj Raghavendra Rao, and N. Ali

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Preclinical development of genome editing to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy by exon skipping, Made Harumi Padmaswari, Shilpi Agrawal, and Christopher E. Nelson

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Visualizing the Effect of Process Pause on Virus Entrapment During Constant Flux Virus Filtration, Wenbo Xu, Xianghong Qian, Hironobu Shirataki, Daniel Straus, and Sumith Ranil Wickramasinghe

Publications from 2024

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Optimizing Recombinant Cas9 Expression: Insights from E. coli BL21(DE3) Strains for Enhanced Protein Purification and Genome Editing, Shilpi Agrawal, Made Harumi Padmaswari, Abbey L. Stokes, Daniel Maxenberger, Morgan Reese, Adila Khalil, and Christopher E. Nelson

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Development of Tissue-Engineered Model of Fibrotic Scarring after Spinal Cord Injury to Study Astrocyte Activation and Neurite Outgrowth In Vitro, Nikolas Ala-Kokko, Inha Baek, and Younghye Song

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Simultaneous Modulation of Pulse Charge and Burst Period Elicits Two Differentiable Referred Sensations, T. R. Benigni, A. E. Pena, S. S. Kuntaegowdanahalli, J. J. Abbas, and R. Jung

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Scaffold-Free Development of Multicellular Tumor Spheroids with Spatial Characterization of Structure and Metabolic Radial Profiles, Shelby N. Bess, Gaven K. Smart, Matthew J. Igoe, and Timothy J. Muldoon

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Noncontact Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy of Synovial Fluid Samples for Rapid Identification of Infections, Erin E. Drewke, Robert L. Brand, Caroline G. Geels, Hanna K. Jensen, Kevin Wong, Jarret D. Sanders, and Narasimhan Rajaram

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Liquid Crystalline Collagen Assemblies as Substrates for Directed Alignment of Human Schwann Cells, Homa Ghaiedi, Luis Carlos Pinzon-Herrera, Saja Alshafeay, Leonard Harris, Jorge Almodovar, and Karthik Nayani

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Advancing CRISPR-Based Solutions for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Therapeutics, Roaa Hadi, Abhishek Poddar, Shivakuma Sonnaila, Venkata Suryanarayana Murthy Bhavaraju, and Shilpi Agrawal

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Assessing the Effects of Dasatinib on Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells, David P. Heinrichs, Vitali Maldonado, I Kade Karisma Gita Ardana, Ryan M. Porter, and Rebekah M. Samsonraj

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Investigating the relationship between hypoxia, hypoxia-inducible factor 1, and the optical redox ratio in response to radiation therapy, Jesse D. Ivers, Nagavenkatasai Puvvada, Charles M. Quick, and Narasimhan Rajaram

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Investigating In Vivo Tumor Biomolecular Changes Following Radiation Therapy Using Raman Spectroscopy, Varsha Karunakaran, Sina Dadgar, Santosh K. Paidi, April Mordi, Whitney A. Lowe, Umme Marium Mim, Jesse D. Ivers, Joel Rodriguez Troncoso, Jared A. McPeake, Alric Fernandes, Sanidhya D. Tripathi, Ishan Barman, and Narasimhan Rajaram

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Phenotypic and Functional Characterization of Bovine Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells, Vitali V. Maldonado, Sriya Pokharel, Jeremy G. Powell, and Rebekah M. Samsonraj Dr.

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Precision and Efficacy of RNA-guided DNA Integration in High-Expressing Muscle Loci, Made Harumi Padmaswari, Gabrielle Bulliard, Shilpi Agrawal, Mary S. Jia, Sabin Khadgi, Kevin A. Murach, and Christopher E. Nelson

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Pre-Incisional and Multiple Intradermal Injection of N-Acetylcysteine Slightly Improves Incisional Wound Healing in an Animal Model, Wictor Pascal, Antoni Smolinski, Mateuz Gotowiec, Marta Wojtkiewicz, Albert Stachura, Kaspar Pelka, Michal Kopka, Kyle P. Quinn, Alan E. Woessner, Dariusz Grzelecki, and Pavel Wlodarski

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In vivo Measurement of Nadh Fluorescence Lifetime in Skeletal Muscle via Fiber-Coupled Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting, Kathryn M. Priest, Jacob V. Schluns, Nathania Nischal, Colton L. Gattis, Jeffery C. Wolchok, and Timothy J. Muldoon

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Resistance to Acetyl Coenzyme A Carboxylase (ACCase) Inhibitor in Lolium multiflorum: Effect of Multiple Target-Site Mutations, Gulab Rangani, Ana Claudia Langaro, Shilpi Agrawal, Reiofeli Algodon Salas-Perez, Juan Camilo Velasquez, Christopher E. Nelson, and Nilda Roma-Burgos

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Recovery of Ionic Liquid from the Model Solution Mixture Mimicking the Catalytically Hydrolyzed Cellulose Product Utilizing Amberlyst Ion-Exchange Resin, Chhabilal Regmi, Chidambaram Thamariselvan, Zhexi Zhu, Xianghong Qian, and S. Ranil Wickramasinghe

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Immersive Virtual Reality-Based Learning as a Supplement for Biomedical Engineering Labs: Challenges Faced and Lessons Learned, Ishita Tandon, Vitali Maldonado, Megan Wilkerson, Amanda Walls, Raj R. Rao, and Mostafa Elsaadany

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Accelerating Neurotechnology Development Using an Agile Methodology, Anil Kumar Thota and Ranu Jung

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Identifying and Training Deep Learning Neural Networks on Biomedical-Related Datasets, Alan E. Woessner, Usman Anjum, Hadi Salman, Jacob Lear, Jeffrey T. Turner, Ross Campbell, Laura Beaudry, Justin Zhan, Lawrence E. Cornett, Susan Gauch, and Kyle P. Quinn

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Quantification of age-related changes in the structure and mechanical function of skin with multiscale imaging, Alan E. Woessner, Nathan J. Witt, Jake D. Jones, Edward A. Sander, and Kyle P. Quinn

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Photodegradation of Microplastics through Nanomaterials: Insights into Photocatalysts Modification and Detailed Mechanisms, Yiting Xiao, Yang Tian, Wenbo Xu, and Jun Zhu

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Cellular Energy Cycle Mediates an Advection-Like Forward Cell Flow to Support Collective Invasion, Jian Zhang, Jenna Mosier, Yusheng Wu, Logan Waddle, Paul V. Taufelele, Wenjun Wang, Heng Sun, and Cynthia A. Reinhart-King

Publications from 2023

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Co-activation of the Diaphragm and External Intercostal Muscles through an Adaptive Closed-loop Respiratory Pacing Controller, Rabeya Zinnat Adury, Ricardo Siu, and Ranu Jung

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Autofluorescence Imaging of Endogenous Metabolic Cofactors in Response to Cytokine Stimulation of Classically Activated Macrophages, Shelby N. Bess, Matthew J. Igoe, Abby C. Denison, and Timothy J. Muldoon

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Design, Fabrication, and Evaluation of 3-D-printed Cystotomy Spoons as a Retrieval Method in Dogs, Davina C. D'Angelo, Sam E. Stephens, Morten O. Jensen, and Lauren R. Thomas

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Mitochondrial Transfer from Cancer-associated Fibroblasts Increases Migration in Aggressive Breast Cancer, Kevin F. Gwolas, Sarah Libring, Emily Berestesky, Shayan Gholizadeh, Samantha C. Schwager, Andra R. Frost, Thomas R. Gaborski, Jian Zhang, and Cynthia A. Reinhart-King

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Local IL-10 Delivery Modulates the Immune Response and Enhances Repair of Volumetric Muscle Loss Muscle Injury, Tai Huynh, Cassandra Reed, Zain Blackwell, Peyton Phelps, Luis Carlos Pinzon-Herrera, Jorge Almodovar, David A. Zaharoff, and Jeffery Wolchok

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A Biochemical Necroptosis Model Explains Cell-type-specific Responses to Cell Death Cues, Geena V. Ildefonso, Marie Oliver Metzig, Alexander Hoffmann, Leonard A. Harris, and Carlos F. Lopez

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Integrated Electrocoagulation, Ultrafiltration, Membrane Distillation, and Crystallization for Treating Produced Water, Mahmood Jebur, Yelyzaveta Bachynska, Xiaolei Hao, and Sumith Ranil Wickramasinghe

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PINE-TREE enables efficient enrichment of prime-edited hPSCs, Mary S. Jia and Christopher E. Nelson

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Early Introduction of 3D Modeling Modules Promotes the Development of Simulation Skills in Downstream Biomedical Engineering Curricula, Mary S. Jia, Raj R. Rao, and Mostafa Elsaadany

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Clinical Utility of Mesenchymal Stem/stromal Cells in Regenerative Medicine and Cellular Therapy, Vitali V. Maldonado, Neel H. Patel, Emma E. Smith, C. Lowry Barnes, Michael P. Gustafson, Raj R. Rao, and Rebekah M. Samsonraj

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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Derived from Patients Carrying Mitochondrial Mutations Exhibit Altered Bioenergetics and Aberrant Differentiation Potential, Fibi Meshrkey, Kelly M. Scheulin, Christopher M. Littlejohn, Joshua Stabach, Bibhuti Saikia, Vedant Thorat, Yimin Huang, Thomas LaFramboise, Edward J. Lesnefsky, Raj R. Rao, Franklin D. West, and Shilpa Iyer

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Contactless system and method for assessing tissue viability and other hemodynamic parameters, Michele Pierro, Kyle Quinn, and Alan Woessner

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Transcriptome Profiling of a Synergistic Volumetric Muscle Loss Repair Strategy, Kevin Roberts, John Taehwan Kim, Jacob Schluns, Grady Dunlap, Jamie Hestekin, and Jeffery Wolchok

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Evaluating Differences in Optical Properties of Indolent and Aggressive Murine Breast Tumors Using Quantitative Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy, Joel Rodriguez Troncoso, Umme Marium Mim, Jesse D. Ivers, Santosh K. Paidi, Mason G. Harper, Khue G. Nguyen, Sruthi Ravindranathan, Lisa Rebello, David E. Lee, David A. Zaharoff, Ishan Barman, and Narasimhan Rajaram

Publications from 2022

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Anesthetics Affect Peripheral Venous Pressure Waveforms and the Cross-talk with Arterial Pressure, Ali Z. Al-Alawi, Kaylee R. Henry, Lauren D. Crimmins, Patrick C. Bonasso, Md Abul Hayat, Melvin S. Dassinger, Jeffrey M. Burford, Hanna K. Jensen, Joseph Sanford, Jingxian Wu, Kevin W. Sexton, and Morten O. Jensen

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Macrophage-targeted Anti-CCL2 Immunotherapy Enhances Tumor Sensitivity to 5-fluorouracil in a Balb/c-CT26 Murine Colon Carcinoma Model Measured Using Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy, Shelby N. Bess, Gage J. Greening, Narasimhan Rajaram, and Timothy J. Muldoon

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Minimally Invasive in vivo Endoscopic Monitoring of Dextran Sulfate Sodium-induced Murine Colitis, Elizabeth A. Bullard, Ariel I. Mundo, Shelby N. Bess, Kathryn Miller Priest, and Timothy J. Muldoon