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  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2012 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Donald E. Ingber is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with a strong emphasis on Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. Additional areas of specialization include Infectious Diseases, Immunology, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist has contributed to numerous topics, including:

  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis

Recent publications by Donald E. Ingber include:

  • Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine (2022) in Nature Reviews Genetics
  • COVID-19 tissue atlases reveal SARS-CoV-2 pathology and cellular targets (2021) in Nature
  • Quantitative prediction of human pharmacokinetic responses to drugs via fluidically coupled vascularized organ chips (2020) in Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • A human-airway-on-a-chip for the rapid identification of candidate antiviral therapeutics and prophylactics (2021) in Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Robotic fluidic coupling and interrogation of multiple vascularized organ chips (2020) in Nature Biomedical Engineering

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Girija Goyal
  • Richard Novák
  • Rachelle Prantil-Baun
  • Amanda Jiang
  • Zohreh Izadifar

Publications by Donald E. Ingber often appear in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports
  • Nature Biomedical Engineering
  • Advanced Science
  • Nature Communications

Over the course of their career, Donald E. Ingber has received several awards and honors, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)
  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2015)
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (2012)
  • Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) (2011)

Best Publications

  • Geometric control of cell life and death.

    Christopher S. Chen;Milan Mrksich;Sui Huang;George M. Whitesides

  • Reconstituting Organ-Level Lung Functions on a Chip

    Dongeun Huh;Benjamin D. Matthews;Akiko Mammoto;Martín Montoya-Zavala;Martín Montoya-Zavala

  • Mechanotransduction across the cell surface and through the cytoskeleton

    N. Wang;J.P. Butler;D.E. Ingber

  • Soft Lithography in Biology and Biochemistry

    George M. Whitesides;Emanuele Ostuni;Shuichi Takayama;Xingyu Jiang

  • Microfluidic organs-on-chips

    Sangeeta N Bhatia;Donald E Ingber

  • Induction of angiogenesis during the transition from hyperplasia to neoplasia

    Judah Folkman;Karol Watson;Donald Ingber;Douglas Hanahan;Douglas Hanahan

  • Polycystins 1 and 2 mediate mechanosensation in the primary cilium of kidney cells

    Surya M. Nauli;Francis J. Alenghat;Ying Luo;Eric Williams

  • From 3D cell culture to organs-on-chips.

    Dongeun Huh;Geraldine A. Hamilton;Donald E. Ingber;Donald E. Ingber;Donald E. Ingber

  • Patterning proteins and cells using soft lithography

    Ravi S. Kane;Shuichi Takayama;Emanuele Ostuni;Donald E. Ingber

  • TENSEGRITY: THE ARCHITECTURAL BASIS OF CELLULAR MECHANOTRANSDUCTION

    D. E. Ingber

  • Demonstration of mechanical connections between integrins, cytoskeletal filaments, and nucleoplasm that stabilize nuclear structure

    Andrew J. Maniotis;Christopher S. Chen;Donald E. Ingber

  • Mechanotransduction at a distance: mechanically coupling the extracellular matrix with the nucleus

    Ning Wang;Jessica D. Tytell;Donald E. Ingber

  • Engineering Cell Shape and Function

    Rahul Singhvi;Amit Kumar;Gabriel P. Lopez;Gregory N. Stephanopoulos

  • Cellular mechanotransduction: putting all the pieces together again.

    Donald E. Ingber

  • Human gut-on-a-chip inhabited by microbial flora that experiences intestinal peristalsis-like motions and flow

    Hyun Jung Kim;Dongeun Huh;Geraldine Hamilton;Donald E. Ingber;Donald E. Ingber;Donald E. Ingber

  • Synthetic analogues of fumagillin that inhibit angiogenesis and suppress tumour growth.

    Donald Ingber;Takeshi Fujita;Shoji Kishimoto;Katsuichi Sudo

  • Tensegrity I. Cell structure and hierarchical systems biology.

    Donald E. Ingber

  • Cellular tensegrity: defining new rules of biological design that govern the cytoskeleton

    Donald E. Ingber

  • Transcriptome-wide noise controls lineage choice in mammalian progenitor cells

    Hannah H. Chang;Martin Hemberg;Martin Hemberg;Mauricio Barahona;Donald E. Ingber

  • Mechanochemical switching between growth and differentiation during fibroblast growth factor-stimulated angiogenesis in vitro: role of extracellular matrix.

    D E Ingber;J Folkman

Frequent Co-Authors

Akiko Mammoto
Akiko Mammoto Medical College of Wisconsin
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Sui Huang
Sui Huang University of Calgary
Ning Wang
Ning Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dongeun Huh
Dongeun Huh University of Pennsylvania
Judah Folkman
Judah Folkman Boston Children's Hospital
Christopher S. Chen
Christopher S. Chen Boston University
Joseph P. Vacanti
Joseph P. Vacanti Harvard University
David J. Mooney
David J. Mooney Harvard University

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