2026 Dror Seliktar: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	62	6445	6233	27	27	155	14566

Overview

Dror Seliktar is affiliated with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel, focusing on interdisciplinary research at the interface of medicine, engineering, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple areas within biomedical sciences, including tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and biomaterials development.

The main fields of study for Dror Seliktar encompass:

Medicine
Engineering
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, Seliktar's subfields of research concentrate on:

Biomedical Engineering
Surgery
Molecular Biology
Biomaterials
Molecular Medicine

The topics frequently addressed in Seliktar's work include:

3D Printing in Biomedical Research
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
Muscle Physiology and Disorders
Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
Cancer Cells and Metastasis

Key publication venues that regularly feature Seliktar's research are:

Cell Death and Disease
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Advanced Materials
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors in Dror Seliktar's body of work include:

Cesare Gargioli
Claudia Fuoco
Orit Bar-Am
Haneen Simaan Yameen
Marco Costantini

Notable recent papers featuring Seliktar's contributions are:

3D Bioprinting of Engineered Tissue Flaps with Hierarchical Vessel Networks (VesselNet) for Direct Host-To-Implant Perfusion (2021), published in Advanced Materials
Tumor Extracellular Matrix Stiffness Promptly Modulates the Phenotype and Gene Expression of Infiltrating T Lymphocytes (2021), published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
A novel extrusion-based 3D bioprinting system for skeletal muscle tissue engineering (2023), published in Biofabrication
Biofabricating murine and human myo-substitutes for rapid volumetric muscle loss restoration (2021), published in EMBO Molecular Medicine
Injectability of Biosynthetic Hydrogels: Consideration for Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures and 3D Bioprinting (2021), published in Advanced Functional Materials

Best Publications

Designing Cell-Compatible Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

Dror Seliktar

2047
Citations
Dynamic Mechanical Conditioning of Collagen-Gel Blood Vessel Constructs Induces Remodeling In Vitro

Dror Seliktar;Richard A. Black;Raymond P. Vito;Robert M. Nerem

723
Citations
Biosynthetic hydrogel scaffolds made from fibrinogen and polyethylene glycol for 3D cell cultures

Liora Almany;Dror Seliktar

656
Citations
Vascular Tissue Engineering

Robert M. Nerem;Dror Seliktar

655
Citations
MMP-2 sensitive, VEGF-bearing bioactive hydrogels for promotion of vascular healing

D. Seliktar;A. H. Zisch;M. P. Lutolf;J. L. Wrana

390
Citations
pH-stimulated DNA hydrogels exhibiting shape-memory properties.

Weiwei Guo;Chun-Hua Lu;Ron Orbach;Fuan Wang

383
Citations
Photopolymerization of cell-encapsulating hydrogels: crosslinking efficiency versus cytotoxicity.

Iris Mironi-Harpaz;Dennis Yingquan Wang;Subbu Venkatraman;Dror Seliktar

382
Citations
Self-assembled Fmoc-peptides as a platform for the formation of nanostructures and hydrogels.

Ron Orbach;Lihi Adler-Abramovich;Sivan Zigerson;Iris Mironi-Harpaz

371
Citations
A multi-cellular 3D bioprinting approach for vascularized heart tissue engineering based on HUVECs and iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

Fabio Maiullari;Marco Costantini;Marco Costantini;Marika Milan;Valentina Pace

364
Citations
Microfluidic-enhanced 3D bioprinting of aligned myoblast-laden hydrogels leads to functionally organized myofibers in vitro and in vivo

Marco Costantini;Stefano Testa;Pamela Mozetic;Andrea Barbetta

315
Citations
The effect of structural alterations of PEG-fibrinogen hydrogel scaffolds on 3-D cellular morphology and cellular migration.

Daniel Dikovsky;Havazelet Bianco-Peled;Dror Seliktar

311
Citations
The Effects of Matrix Stiffness and RhoA on the Phenotypic Plasticity of Smooth Muscle Cells in a 3-D Biosynthetic Hydrogel System

Shelly R. Peyton;Peter D. Kim;Cyrus M. Ghajar;Dror Seliktar

268
Citations
Differential response of adult and embryonic mesenchymal progenitor cells to mechanical compression in hydrogels.

Vanessa Terraciano;Nathaniel Hwang;Lorenzo Moroni;Hyung Bin Park

258
Citations
Mechanical Strain-Stimulated Remodeling of Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Constructs

Dror Seliktar;Robert M. Nerem;Zorina S. Galis

233
Citations
Protein-polymer conjugates for forming photopolymerizable biomimetic hydrogels for tissue engineering.

Maya Gonen-Wadmany;Liat Oss-Ronen;Dror Seliktar

214
Citations
The rheological and structural properties of Fmoc-peptide-based hydrogels: the effect of aromatic molecular architecture on self-assembly and physical characteristics.

Ron Orbach;Iris Mironi-Harpaz;Lihi Adler-Abramovich;Estelle Mossou

201
Citations
Regenerative medicine as applied to solid organ transplantation: current status and future challenges.

Giuseppe Orlando;Giuseppe Orlando;Pedro Baptista;Martin Birchall;Paolo De Coppi

197
Citations
The role of matrix metalloproteinase-2 in the remodeling of cell-seeded vascular constructs subjected to cyclic strain.

Dror Seliktar;Robert M. Nerem;Zorina S. Galis

196
Citations
Switchable catalytic acrylamide hydrogels cross-linked by hemin/G-quadruplexes.

Chun-Hua Lu;Xiu-Juan Qi;Xiu-Juan Qi;Ron Orbach;Huang-Hao Yang

183
Citations
Matrix stiffness affects spontaneous contraction of cardiomyocytes cultured within a PEGylated fibrinogen biomaterial

Keren Shapira-Schweitzer;Dror Seliktar

177
Citations
Defining the Role of Matrix Compliance and Proteolysis in Three-Dimensional Cell Spreading and Remodeling

Daniel Dikovsky;Havazelet Bianco-Peled;Dror Seliktar

172
Citations
Biomimetics of the extracellular matrix: an integrated three-dimensional fiber-hydrogel composite for cartilage tissue engineering

Jeannine Coburn;Matt Gibson;Pierre Alain Bandalini;Christopher Laird

164
Citations
Laser Photoablation of Guidance Microchannels into Hydrogels Directs Cell Growth in Three Dimensions

Offra Sarig-Nadir;Noga Livnat;Ruthy Zajdman;Shy Shoham

148
Citations