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Sriram Eleswarapu, Ph.D.

Medical School

Undergraduate Institution: Rice University

Year: Third-Year Medical Student

Graduate Program: Bioengineering (Rice University)

Mentor: Kyriacos Athanasiou, Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Thesis Title: Immunoproteomic Identification and Removal of Tissue Engineered Articular Cartilage Xenoantigens

Publications:

Eleswarapu SV, Chen JA, Athanasiou KA. Temporal assessment of ribose treatment on self-assembled articular cartilage constructs. Biochemical and biophysical research communications. 2011;414(2):431-6.
Eleswarapu SV, Responte DJ, Athanasiou KA. Tensile properties, collagen content, and crosslinks in connective tissues of the immature knee joint. PloS one. 2011;6(10):e26178.
Elder BD*, Eleswarapu SV*, Athanasiou KA. Extraction techniques for the decellularization of tissue engineered articular cartilage constructs. Biomaterials. 2009. 30(22):3749-56. (*Equal contribution).
Eleswarapu SV, Leipzig ND, Athanasiou KA. Gene expression of single articular chondrocytes. Cell Tissue Res. 2007. 327(1):43-54.
Leipzig ND, Eleswarapu SV, Athanasiou KA. The effects of TGF-beta1 and IGF-I on the biomechanics and cytoskeleton of single chondrocytes. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2006. 14(12):1227-36.