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Daniel Gould, Ph.D.

Medical School

Undergraduate Institution: University of California - Los Angeles

Year: Third-Year Medical Student

Graduate Program: Bioengineering (Rice University)

Mentors: Mary Dickinson, Ph.D., and Jennifer West, Ph.D.

Thesis Title: Mimicking Vasculature of the Neural Stem Cell Niche Using Bioactive Poly(ethylene-glycol) Hydrogels

Publications:

Gould DJ, Vadakkan TJ, Poche RA, Dickinson ME. Multifractal and lacunarity analysis of microvascular morphology and remodeling. Microcirculation. 2011;18(2):136-51.
Leslie-Barbick JE, Saik JE, Gould DJ, Dickinson ME, West JL. The promotion of microvasculature formation in poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate hydrogels by an immobilized VEGF-mimetic peptide. Biomaterials. 2011;32(25):5782-9.
Saik JE, Gould DJ, Keswani AH, Dickinson ME, West JL. Biomimetic hydrogels with immobilized ephrinA1 for therapeutic angiogenesis. Biomacromolecules. 2011;12(7):2715-22.
Saik JE, Gould DJ, Watkins EM, Dickinson ME, West JL. Covalently immobilized platelet-derived growth factor-BB promotes angiogenesis in biomimetic poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels. Acta biomaterialia. 2011;7(1):133-43.