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Ben Elder, Ph.D.

Bioengineering (Rice University)

Undergraduate Institution: Yale University

Year: Advanced Medical Student

Mentor: Kyriacos Athanasiou, Ph.D.

Thesis Title: Optimizing a Scaffoldless Approach for Tissue Engineering Articular Cartilage

Publications:

Elder BD, Athanasiou KA. Effects of temporal hydrostatic pressure on tissue-engineered bovine articular cartilage constructs. Tissue Eng Part A. 2009; 15(5):1151-8.

Elder BD, Athanasiou KA. Hydrostatic pressure in articular cartilage tissue engineering: from chondrocytes to tissue regeneration. Tissue Eng Part B Rev. 2009; 15(1):43-53.

Elder BD, Athanasiou KA. Systematic assessment of growth factor treatment on biochemical and biomechanical properties of engineered articular cartilage constructs. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2009; 17(1):114-23.

Elder BD, Eleswarapu SV, Athanasiou KA. Evaluating extraction techniques for the decellularization of tissue engineered articular cartilage constructs. Biomaterials. 2009, 30(22):3749-56.

Elder BD, Vigneswarathan K, Athanasiou KA, Kim DH. Biomechanical, biochemical, and histological characterization of canine facet joint cartilage. J Neurosurgery: Spine. 2009, 10(6):623-8.

Elder BD, Athanasiou KA. Effects of confinement on the mechanical properties of self-assembled articular cartilage constructs in the direction orthogonal to the confinement surface. J Orthop Res. 2008; (26)2:238-46.

Elder BD, Athanasiou KA. Paradigms of tissue engineering with applications to cartilage regeneration. In: Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration: Biological Materials and Methods, Pietrzak, WS, Ed. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press 2008:593-615.

Elder BD, Athanasiou KA. Synergistic and additive effects of hydrostatic pressure and growth factors on tissue formation. PLoS ONE. 2008; (3)6:e2341.