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Ira M. Herman is a researcher affiliated with Tufts University in the United States, with a primary focus on medicine and related subfields. Their work spans several areas including neurology, rehabilitation, urology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and occupational therapy. The research primarily addresses topics related to wound healing and treatments, barrier structure and function studies, and intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage research.

The scientist has contributed extensively to research on diabetic foot ulcer assessment and management, pressure ulcer prevention and management, silk-based biomaterials and applications, as well as hair growth and disorders.

Recent publications exemplify the breadth of their research interests. Among these are:

  • Blood-Brain Barrier Damage in Ischemic Stroke and Its Regulation by Endothelial Mechanotransduction (2020, Frontiers in Physiology)
  • Advanced Wound Diagnostics: Toward Transforming Wound Care into Precision Medicine (2021, Advances in Wound Care)
  • Developing a transwell millifluidic device for studying blood-brain barrier endothelium (2022, Lab on a Chip)
  • Out of the Darkness and Into the Light: Confronting the Global Challenges in Wound Education (2025, International Wound Journal)
  • A Matrix-Derived Bioactive Peptide Enhances Epidermal Thickness and Hair Follicle Neogenesis in Grafted Dermal-Epidermal Composites (2025, Wound Repair and Regeneration)

Frequent co-authors in their research include Thomas N. Darling, Eno E. Ebong, Ian C. Harding, Mark Vigliotti, and Alex Caraballo. Many of these collaborations have resulted in multiple joint publications.

The venues where the scientist's work appears most frequently include Bioengineering, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Frontiers in Physiology, Advances in Wound Care, and Lab on a Chip. This demonstrates engagement with a variety of scholarly platforms related to both engineering and clinical aspects of medical research.

Best Publications

  • Bone morphogenetic protein expression in human atherosclerotic lesions.

    K Boström;K E Watson;S Horn;C Wortham

  • Mechanisms of normal and tumor-derived angiogenesis

    Michael Papetti;Ira M. Herman

  • Acute and impaired wound healing: pathophysiology and current methods for drug delivery, part 1: normal and chronic wounds: biology, causes, and approaches to care.

    Tatiana N. Demidova-Rice;Michael R. Hamblin;Ira M. Herman

  • Microvascular pericytes contain muscle and nonmuscle actins.

    Ira M. Herman;Patricia Ann D'Amore

  • Sorting of beta-actin mRNA and protein to neurites and growth cones in culture.

    Gary J. Bassell;Honglai Zhang;Anne L. Byrd;Andrea M. Femino

  • Dynamic reciprocity in the wound microenvironment

    Gregory S. Schultz;Jeffrey M. Davidson;Robert S. Kirsner;Paul Bornstein

  • Actin Filament Stress Fibers in Vascular Endothelial Cells in vivo

    Albert J. Wong;Thomas D. Pollard;Ira M. Herman

  • Calpain Regulates Actin Remodeling during Cell Spreading

    David A. Potter;Jennifer S. Tirnauer;Richard Janssen;Dorothy E. Croall

  • Relation between cell activity and the distribution of cytoplasmic actin and myosin.

    I M Herman;N J Crisona;T D Pollard

  • Beta actin and its mRNA are localized at the plasma membrane and the regions of moving cytoplasm during the cellular response to injury.

    T C Hoock;P M Newcomb;I M Herman

  • Microvascular Modifications in Diabetic Retinopathy

    Jennifer T. Durham;Ira M. Herman

  • Acute and impaired wound healing: pathophysiology and current methods for drug delivery, part 2: role of growth factors in normal and pathological wound healing: therapeutic potential and methods of delivery.

    Tatiana N. Demidova-Rice;Michael R. Hamblin;Ira M. Herman

  • Pericyte-endothelial crosstalk: implications and opportunities for advanced cellular therapies.

    Anita Geevarghese;Ira M. Herman

  • Low-Level Light Stimulates Excisional Wound Healing in Mice

    Tatiana N. Demidova-Rice;Elena V. Salomatina;Anna N. Yaroslavsky;Ira M. Herman

  • Wound Healing Angiogenesis: Innovations and Challenges in Acute and Chronic Wound Healing.

    Tatiana N. Demidova-Rice;Jennifer T. Durham;Ira M. Herman

  • Microvascular remodeling and wound healing: A role for pericytes

    Brian M. Dulmovits;Ira M. Herman

  • Radial keratotomy. II. Role of the myofibroblast in corneal wound contraction.

    R. M R Garana;Walter M Petroll;W. T. Chen;I. M. Herman

  • Functional sorting of actin isoforms in microvascular pericytes.

    D DeNofrio;T C Hoock;I M Herman

  • The pericyte: Cellular regulator of microvascular blood flow

    Matthew E. Kutcher;Ira M. Herman

  • Pericytes Derived from Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Protect against Retinal Vasculopathy

    Thomas A. Mendel;Erin B. D. Clabough;David S. Kao;Tatiana N. Demidova-Rice

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael R. Hamblin
Michael R. Hamblin University of Johannesburg
Thomas D. Pollard
Thomas D. Pollard Yale University
Patricia A. D'Amore
Patricia A. D'Amore Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
John B. Mulliken
John B. Mulliken Boston Children's Hospital
Athar H. Chishti
Athar H. Chishti Tufts University
Krystyn J. Van Vliet
Krystyn J. Van Vliet Cornell University
Joyce Bischoff
Joyce Bischoff Harvard Medical School
John M. Leong
John M. Leong Tufts University
Saul Tzipori
Saul Tzipori Tufts University
Jeffrey T. Borenstein
Jeffrey T. Borenstein Draper Laboratory

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