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Robert T. Tranquillo

Robert T. Tranquillo

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
55
Citations
10337
World Ranking
3032
National Ranking
906

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Best Publications

  • Small-Diameter Artificial Arteries Engineered In Vitro

    Brett C. Isenberg;Chrysanthi Williams;Robert T. Tranquillo

  • A methodology for the systematic and quantitative study of cell contact guidance in oriented collagen gels. Correlation of fibroblast orientation and gel birefringence

    Stefano Guido;Robert T. Tranquillo

  • An Anisotropic Biphasic Theory of Tissue-Equivalent Mechanics: The Interplay Among Cell Traction, Fibrillar Network Deformation, Fibril Alignment, and Cell Contact Guidance

    V. H. Barocas;R. T. Tranquillo

  • Advanced Tools for Tissue Engineering: Scaffolds, Bioreactors, and Signaling

    Lisa E. Freed;Farshid Guilak;X. Edward Guo;Martha L. Gray

  • Exploiting glycation to stiffen and strengthen tissue equivalents for tissue engineering.

    T. S. Girton;T. R. Oegema;Robert T Tranquillo

  • Implantable arterial grafts from human fibroblasts and fibrin using a multi-graft pulsed flow-stretch bioreactor with noninvasive strength monitoring.

    Zeeshan H. Syedain;Lee A. Meier;Jason W. Bjork;Ann Lee

  • Biased cell migration of fibroblasts exhibiting contact guidance in oriented collagen gels

    Richard B. Dickinson;Stefano Guido;Robert T. Tranquillo

  • A fibrin-based arterial media equivalent.

    E. D. Grassl;T. R. Oegema;R. T. Tranquillo

  • Long-term cyclic distention enhances the mechanical properties of collagen-based media-equivalents.

    Brett C Isenberg;Robert T Tranquillo

  • Rheology of reconstituted type I collagen gel in confined compression

    David M. Knapp;Victor H. Barocas;Alice G. Moon;Alice G. Moon;Kyeongah Yoo

  • Magnetically orientated tissue-equivalent tubes: application to a circumferentially orientated media-equivalent

    R.T. Tranquillo;T.S. Girton;B.A. Bromberek;T.G. Triebes

  • The Fibroblast-Populated Collagen Microsphere Assay of Cell Traction Force—Part 2: Measurement of the Cell Traction Parameter

    V. H. Barocas;A. G. Moon;R. T. Tranquillo

  • Optimal estimation of cell movement indices from the statistical analysis of cell tracking data

    Richard B. Dickinson;Robert T. Tranquillo

  • Neuronal contact guidance in magnetically aligned fibrin gels: effect of variation in gel mechano-structural properties

    N. Dubey;P.C. Letourneau;R.T. Tranquillo

  • Mechanochemical models for generating biological pattern and form in development

    J.D. Murray;P.K. Maini;R.T. Tranquillo

  • Enhanced fibrin remodeling in vitro with TGF-β1, insulin and plasmin for improved tissue-equivalents

    M.R Neidert;E.S Lee;T.R Oegema;R.T Tranquillo

  • Cell-induced alignment augments twitch force in fibrin gel-based engineered myocardium via gap junction modification.

    Lauren D. Black;Jason D. Meyers;Justin S. Weinbaum;Yevgeniya A. Shvelidze

  • Image-based multiscale modeling predicts tissue-level and network-level fiber reorganization in stretched cell-compacted collagen gels

    Edward A. Sander;Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos;Robert T. Tranquillo;Victor H. Barocas

  • Engineered alignment in media equivalents: magnetic prealignment and mandrel compaction.

    Victor H Barocas;T. S. Girton;Robert T Tranquillo

  • Functional tissue-engineered valves from cell-remodeled fibrin with commissural alignment of cell-produced collagen.

    Paul S. Robinson;Sandra L. Johnson;Michael C. Evans;Victor H. Barocas

  • A stochastic model for adhesion-mediated cell random motility and haptotaxis.

    Richard B. Dickinson;Robert T. Tranquillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor H. Barocas
Victor H. Barocas University of Minnesota
Theodore R. Oegema
Theodore R. Oegema Rush University Medical Center
Paul C. Letourneau
Paul C. Letourneau University of Minnesota
Mohammad R. K. Mofrad
Mohammad R. K. Mofrad University of California, Berkeley
Sunčica Čanić
Sunčica Čanić University of California, Berkeley
Boyce E. Griffith
Boyce E. Griffith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kirk C. Hansen
Kirk C. Hansen University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
James D. Murray
James D. Murray University of Washington

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