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  1. Evaluating anti-sickling therapies for sickle cell disease: a microfluidic assay for red blood cell-mediated microvascular occlusion under hypoxia

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  2. Motion blur microscopy: in vitro imaging of cell adhesion dynamics in whole blood flow

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  3. Decorrelation Time Mapping as an Analysis Tool for Nanobubble-Based Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, June 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  4. Point-of-Care Diagnostic Test for Beta-Thalassemia

    Article • Biosensors, February 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  5. Next generation microfluidics: fulfilling the promise of lab-on-a-chip technologies

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  6. Motion Blur Microscopy

    Article • October 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  7. A Novel Approach for Glycosylated Hemoglobin Testing Using Microchip Affinity Electrophoresis

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, May 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  8. Kindlin-3 deficiency leads to impaired erythropoiesis and erythrocyte cytoskeleton

    Article • Blood Advances, April 2023, American Society of Hematology

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  9. Real-time imaging of nanobubble ultrasound contrast agent flow, extravasation, and diffusion through an extracellular matrix using a microfluidic model

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  10. Thermoresponsive polymers with LCST transition: synthesis, characterization, and their impact on biomedical frontiers

    Article • RSC Applied Polymers, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  11. First Point-of-Care Diagnostic Test for Beta-Thalassemia

    Article • June 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  12. Size and density measurements of single sickle red blood cells using microfluidic magnetic levitation

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  13. Integrating deep learning with microfluidics for biophysical classification of sickle red blood cells adhered to laminin

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, November 2021, PLOS

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  14. Dynamic pH and Thermal Analysis of Paper-Based Microchip Electrophoresis

    Article • Micromachines, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan, Dr Adrienne Robyn Minerick

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    Article • Microcirculation, February 2021, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  16. Standardized microfluidic assessment of red blood cell–mediated microcapillary occlusion: Association with clinical phenotype and hydroxyurea responsiveness in sickle cell disease

    Article • Microcirculation, January 2021, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  17. A retrospective case study of successful translational research: Gazelle Hb variant point-of-care diagnostic device for sickle cell disease

    Article • Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  18. Microfluidic electrical impedance assessment of red blood cell-mediated microvascular occlusion

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2021, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  19. Ultrathin-film optical coating for angle-independent remote hydrogen sensing

    Article • Measurement Science and Technology, September 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  20. Whole blood viscosity and red blood cell adhesion: Potential biomarkers for targeted and curative therapies in sickle cell disease

    Article • American Journal of Hematology, August 2020, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  21. Red blood cell adhesion to ICAM-1 is mediated by fibrinogen and is associated with right-to-left shunts in sickle cell disease

    Article • Blood Advances, August 2020, American Society of Hematology

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  22. Integrating deep learning with microfluidics for biophysical classification of sickle red blood cells

    Article • July 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  23. Microfluidic assessment of red blood cell mediated microvascular occlusion

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  24. Hydrogen gas sensing using aluminum doped ZnO metasurfaces

    Article • Nanoscale Advances, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  25. Red blood cell adhesion to heme-activated endothelial cells reflects clinical phenotype in sickle cell disease

    Article • American Journal of Hematology, August 2018, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  26. Biomimetic post-capillary venule expansions for leukocyte adhesion studies

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan, Alex Huang

  27. Shear dependent red blood cell adhesion in microscale flow

    Article • Integrative Biology, January 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  28. Organismal engineering: Toward a robotic taxonomic key for devices using organic materials

    Article • Science Robotics, November 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  29. Hypoxia-enhanced adhesion of red blood cells in microscale flow

    Article • Microcirculation, July 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  30. Microfluidic processing of synovial fluid for cytological analysis

    Article • Biomedical Microdevices, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  31. Sickle cell disease biochip: a functional red blood cell adhesion assay for monitoring sickle cell disease

    Article • Translational Research, July 2016, Elsevier

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan, Dr Yunus Alapan

  32. Anisotropically Stiff 3D Micropillar Niche Induces Extraordinary Cell Alignment and Elongation

    Article • Advanced Healthcare Materials, May 2016, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan, Dr Yunus Alapan, Bolan Li

  33. Extreme sensitivity biosensing platform based on hyperbolic metamaterials

    Article • Nature Materials, March 2016, Nature

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan, Dr Yunus Alapan

  34. Three-Dimensional Printing Based Hybrid Manufacturing of Microfluidic Devices

    Article • Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine, September 2015, ASME International

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan, Dr Yunus Alapan

  35. Heterogeneous Red Blood Cell Adhesion and Deformability in Sickle Cell Disease

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2014, Nature

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan, Dr Yunus Alapan

  36. An RF/microwave microfluidic sensor based on a 3D capacitive structure with a floating electrode for miniaturized dielectric spectroscopy

    Article • November 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  37. Engineering Anisotropic Biomimetic Fibrocartilage Microenvironment by Bioprinting Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Nanoliter Gel Droplets

    Article • Molecular Pharmaceutics, July 2014, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  38. Organ Printing and Cell Encapsulation

    Article • June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  39. Micro-a-fluidics ELISA for Rapid CD4 Cell Count at the Point-of-Care

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2014, Nature

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  40. Use of commercial off-the-shelf digital cameras for scientific data acquisition and scene-specific color calibration

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America A, January 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  41. Nanoplasmonic Quantitative Detection of Intact Viruses from Unprocessed Whole Blood

    Article • ACS Nano, June 2013, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  42. Exhaustion of Racing Sperm in Nature-Mimicking Microfluidic Channels During Sorting

    Article • Small, May 2013, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  43. Flow induces epithelial-mesenchymal transition, cellular heterogeneity and biomarker modulation in 3D ovarian cancer nodules

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2013, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  44. Hydrogels: Paramagnetic Levitational Assembly of Hydrogels (Adv. Mater. 8/2013)

    Article • Advanced Materials, February 2013, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  45. Manipulating biological agents and cells in micro-scale volumes for applications in medicine

    Article • Chemical Society Reviews, January 2013, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  46. In Vitro Three-Dimensional Cancer Culture Models

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  47. Paramagnetic Levitational Assembly of Hydrogels

    Article • Advanced Materials, December 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  48. Simple Precision Creation of Digitally Specified, Spatially Heterogeneous, Engineered Tissue Architectures

    Article • Advanced Materials, November 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  49. Release of Magnetic Nanoparticles from Cell-Encapsulating Biodegradable Nanobiomaterials

    Article • ACS Nano, August 2012, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  50. Immune and Inflammatory Pathways are Involved in Inherent Bone Marrow Ossification

    Article • Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  51. Smart Interface Materials Integrated with Microfluidics for On-Demand Local Capture and Release of Cells

    Article • Advanced Healthcare Materials, July 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  52. Portable microfluidic chip for detection of Escherichia coli in produce and blood

    Article • International Journal of Nanomedicine, May 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  53. Nanoliter droplet vitrification for oocyte cryopreservation

    Article • Nanomedicine, April 2012, Future Medicine

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  54. Emerging Technologies for Assembly of Microscale Hydrogels

    Article • Advanced Healthcare Materials, March 2012, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  55. Prediction and control of number of cells in microdroplets by stochastic modeling

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  56. Efficient on-chip isolation of HIV subtypes

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  57. Editorial: Scaffold-free cell-based approaches in biomedicine and biotechnology

    Article • Biotechnology Journal, December 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  58. The assembly of cell-encapsulating microscale hydrogels using acoustic waves

    Article • Biomaterials, November 2011, Elsevier

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  59. Three-Dimensional Magnetic Assembly of Microscale Hydrogels

    Article • Advanced Materials, August 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  60. Transport of a soft cargo on a nanoscale ratchet

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, August 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  61. Emerging technologies in medical applications of minimum volume vitrification

    Article • Nanomedicine, August 2011, Future Medicine

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  62. Statistical Modeling of Single Target Cell Encapsulation

    Article • PLOS One, July 2011, PLOS

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  63. Enumeration of CD4+ T-Cells Using a Portable Microchip Count Platform in Tanzanian HIV-Infected Patients

    Article • PLOS One, July 2011, PLOS

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  64. Microengineering methods for cell-based microarrays and high-throughput drug-screening applications

    Article • Biofabrication, July 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  65. Embryonic stem cell bioprinting for uniform and controlled size embryoid body formation

    Article • Biomicrofluidics, June 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  66. Automated and Adaptable Quantification of Cellular Alignment from Microscopic Images for Tissue Engineering Applications

    Article • Tissue Engineering Part C Methods, June 2011, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  67. Living Bacterial Sacrificial Porogens to Engineer Decellularized Porous Scaffolds

    Article • PLOS One, April 2011, PLOS

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  68. A Scaffold-Free Multicellular Three-Dimensional In Vitro Model of Osteogenesis

    Article • Calcified Tissue International, February 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  69. Miniaturized lensless imaging systems for cell and microorganism visualization in point-of-care testing

    Article • Biotechnology Journal, February 2011, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  70. Ossifying Bone Marrow Explant Culture as a Three-Dimensional Mechanoresponsive In Vitro Model of Osteogenesis

    Article • Tissue Engineering Part A, February 2011, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  71. Controlled viable release of selectively captured label-free cells in microchannels

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  72. Lensless imaging for simultaneous microfluidic sperm monitoring and sorting

    Article • Lab on a Chip, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  73. The Sequential Production Profiles of Growth Factors and their Relations to Bone Volume in Ossifying Bone Marrow Explants

    Article • Tissue Engineering Part A, July 2010, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  74. Comparison of morphology, orientation, and migration of tendon derived fibroblasts and bone marrow stromal cells on electrochemically aligned collagen constructs

    Article • Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, January 2010, Wiley

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  75. The Mechanical Environment of Bone Marrow: A Review

    Article • Annals of Biomedical Engineering, October 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  76. An electrochemical fabrication process for the assembly of anisotropically oriented collagen bundles

    Article • Biomaterials, August 2008, Elsevier

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan

  77. An Implantable Magnetoelastic Sensor System for Wireless Physiological Sensing of Viscosity

    Article • June 2007, ASME International

    Prof. Umut A Gurkan