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Jeffrey J. Fredberg

Jeffrey J. Fredberg

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
103
Citations
38381
World Ranking
1316
National Ranking
771

Medicine

D-Index
104
Citations
38791
World Ranking
7068
National Ranking
3716

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1994 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Jeffrey J. Fredberg is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with significant contributions to the subfields of Cell Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Oncology.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics including:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Skin and Cellular Biology Research
  • Nuclear Structure and Function

Jeffrey J. Fredberg has published multiple scientific papers in frequent collaboration with several co-authors. These frequent collaborators include Chan Young Park, Jennifer A. Mitchel, James P. Butler, Jin-Ah Park, and Margherita De Marzio.

The scientist's recent publications include the following:

  • "In primary airway epithelial cells, the unjamming transition is distinct from the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "A novel jamming phase diagram links tumor invasion to non-equilibrium phase separation" (2021), published in iScience
  • "Nuclear lamin isoforms differentially contribute to LINC complex-dependent nucleocytoskeletal coupling and whole-cell mechanics" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Are cell jamming and unjamming essential in tissue development?" (2021), published in Cells and Development
  • "Stiffness Restricts the Stemness of the Intestinal Stem Cells and Skews Their Differentiation Toward Goblet Cells" (2023), published in Gastroenterology

Frequent publication venues for their work are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Scientific Reports, Nature Communications, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jeffrey J. Fredberg was awarded the title of Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Scaling the microrheology of living cells.

    Ben Fabry;Geoffrey N. Maksym;James P. Butler;Michael Glogauer

  • Physical forces during collective cell migration

    Xavier Trepat;Xavier Trepat;Michael R. Wasserman;Thomas E. Angelini;Emil Millet

  • Traction fields, moments, and strain energy that cells exert on their surroundings

    James P. Butler;Iva Marija Tolić-Nørrelykke;Ben Fabry;Jeffrey J. Fredberg

  • Collective cell guidance by cooperative intercellular forces.

    Dhananjay T. Tambe;C. Corey Hardin;Thomas E. Angelini;Kavitha Rajendran

  • Mechanical behavior in living cells consistent with the tensegrity model

    Ning Wang;Keiji Naruse;Dimitrije Stamenović;Jeffrey J. Fredberg

  • Input impedance and peripheral inhomogeneity of dog lungs

    Z. Hantos;B. Daroczy;B. Suki;S. Nagy

  • Cell prestress. I. Stiffness and prestress are closely associated in adherent contractile cells

    Ning Wang;Iva Marija Tolić-Nørrelykke;Jianxin Chen;Srboljub M. Mijailovich

  • Glass-like dynamics of collective cell migration

    Thomas E. Angelini;Edouard Hannezo;Xavier Trepat;Manuel Marquez

  • Universal physical responses to stretch in the living cell

    Xavier Trepat;Linhong Deng;Linhong Deng;Steven S. An;Steven S. An;Daniel Navajas

  • Unjamming and cell shape in the asthmatic airway epithelium

    Jin Ah Park;Jae Hun Kim;Dapeng Bi;Jennifer A. Mitchel

  • Cytoskeletal remodelling and slow dynamics in the living cell.

    Predrag Bursac;Guillaume Lenormand;Ben Fabry;Madavi Oliver

  • On the imperfect elasticity of lung tissue

    J. J. Fredberg;D. Stamenovic

  • Mechanical waves during tissue expansion

    Xavier Serra-Picamal;Vito Conte;Romaric Vincent;Ester Anon

  • Airway smooth muscle dynamics: A common pathway of airway obstruction in asthma

    S S An;T R Bai;J H T Bates;J L Black

  • Airway smooth muscle, tidal stretches, and dynamically determined contractile states.

    Jeffrey J. Fredberg;David Inouye;Brett Miller;Madhavi Nathan

  • Time scale and other invariants of integrative mechanical behavior in living cells.

    Ben Fabry;Geoffrey N. Maksym;James P. Butler;Michael Glogauer

  • Cell volume change through water efflux impacts cell stiffness and stem cell fate.

    Ming Guo;Adrian F. Pegoraro;Angelo Mao;Enhua H. Zhou

  • Normal and Cystic Fibrosis Airway Surface Liquid Homeostasis THE EFFECTS OF PHASIC SHEAR STRESS AND VIRAL INFECTIONS

    Robert Tarran;Brian Button;Maryse Picher;Anthony M. Paradiso

  • Obesity, smooth muscle, and airway hyperresponsiveness.

    Stephanie A. Shore;Jeffrey J. Fredberg

  • Collective cell guidance by cooperative intercellular forces

    Dhananjay T. Tambe;Charles C. Hardin;Jeffrey J. Fredberg;Xavier Trepat

Frequent Co-Authors

James P. Butler
James P. Butler Harvard University
Ben Fabry
Ben Fabry University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Julian Solway
Julian Solway University of Chicago
David A. Weitz
David A. Weitz Harvard University
Ning Wang
Ning Wang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dimitrije Stamenović
Dimitrije Stamenović Boston University
Jeffrey M. Drazen
Jeffrey M. Drazen Harvard University
William T. Gerthoffer
William T. Gerthoffer University of Nevada Reno

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