Alicia El Haj: Translating Cell Therapy to the Clinic






Invited talk at the Glasgow Biomaterials Seminar SeriesSeptember 15th 2015

Prof. Alicia El Haj

Some of the papers mentioned in the talk


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left 7 o'clock: Webb, WR, Dale, TP, Lomas, AJ, Zeng, G, Wimpenny, I. El Haj, AJ, Forsyth, NR, Chen, GQ. The application of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) scaffolds for tendon repair in the rat model. Biomaterials Vol 34, 2013, 6683–6694.


left 9o'clock: Cunha-Reis C, El Haj AJ, Yang X, Yang Y. 2013. Fluorescent labeling of chitosan for use in non-invasive monitoring of degradation in tissue engineering. J Tissue Eng Regen Med, vol. 7(1), 39-50. 

top right 2 o'clock: Baas E, Kuiper JH, Yang Y, Wood MA, El Haj AJ. 2010. In vitro bone growth responds to local mechanical strain in three-dimensional polymer scaffolds. J Biomechanics, vol. 43(4), 733-739.  
     Wang QG, Nguyen B, Thomas CR, Zhang Z, El Haj AJ, Kuiper NJ. 2010. Molecular profiling of single cells in response to mechanical force: comparison of chondrocytes, chondrons and encapsulated chondrocytes. Biomaterials, vol. 31(7), 1619-1625. 
     Araujo JV, Cunha-Reis C, Rada T, da Silva MA, Gomes ME, Yang Y, Ashammakhi N, Reis RL, El-Haj AJ, Neves NM. 2010. Dynamic culture of osteogenic cells in biomimetically coated poly(caprolactone) nanofibre mesh constructs. Tissue Eng Part A, vol. 16(2), 557-563.

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top left: Henstock JR, Rotherham M, Rose JB, El Haj AJ. 2013. Cyclic hydrostatic pressure stimulates enhanced bone development in the foetal chick femur in vitro. Bone, vol 53. 468-477. 

top right: Lin MM, Kim DOK, El Haj AJ, Dobson J. 2008. Development of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONS) for translation to clinical applications. IEEE Trans Nanobioscience, vol. 7(4), 298-305.
     Rotherham, M, El Haj, AJ Remote Activation of the Wnt/β-Catenin Signalling Pathway Using Functionalised Magnetic Particles. PloS one 10 (3), e0121761.

     Markides, H, Kehoe, O, Morris, RH, El Haj, AJ. Whole body tracking of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle-labelled cells--a rheumatoid arthritis mouse model. Stem Cell Res Ther 4, 126

bottom (6 o'clock): Hughes S, McBain S, Dobson J, El Haj AJ. 2008. Selective activation of mechanosensitive ion channels using magnetic particles. J R Soc Interface, vol. 5(25), 855-863.