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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Timothy J. Deming is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Materials Science. Within these broader areas, their focused subfields include Molecular Biology, Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry, Developmental Neuroscience, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their work covers a diverse range of scientific topics. These include:

  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Nerve injury and regeneration
  • Biopolymer Synthesis and Applications
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Mesenchymal stem cell research

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Deming are Michael V. Sofroniew, Casey A. Morrison, Timothy M. O'Shea, Alexander Wollenberg, and Wendell A. Scott.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in notable scientific venues, including:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Biomacromolecules
  • Nature Communications
  • ChemNanoMat
  • ACS Macro Letters

Their recent papers demonstrate a range of research interests. These include:

  • Recovery of walking after paralysis by regenerating characterized neurons to their natural target region (2023, Science)
  • Foreign body responses in mouse central nervous system mimic natural wound responses and alter biomaterial functions (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Lesion environments direct transplanted neural progenitors towards a wound repair astroglial phenotype in mice (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Active Controlled and Tunable Coacervation Using Side-Chain Functional α-Helical Homopolypeptides (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Design of Thermoresponsive Elastin-Like Glycopolypeptides for Selective Lectin Binding and Sorting (2020, Biomacromolecules)

Throughout their career, Deming has received honors such as being named a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2010 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Astrocyte scar formation aids central nervous system axon regeneration

    Mark A. Anderson;Joshua E. Burda;Yilong Ren;Yan Ao

  • Rapidly recovering hydrogel scaffolds from self-assembling diblock copolypeptide amphiphiles

    Andrew P. Nowak;Victor Breedveld;Lisa Pakstis;Bulent Ozbas

  • Biomimetic synthesis of ordered silica structures mediated by block copolypeptides.

    Jennifer N. Cha;Galen D. Stucky;Daniel E. Morse;Timothy J. Deming

  • Stimuli-responsive polypeptide vesicles by conformation-specific assembly.

    Enrico G. Bellomo;Michael D. Wyrsta;Lisa Pakstis;Darrin J. Pochan

  • Role of l-3,4-Dihydroxyphenylalanine in Mussel Adhesive Proteins

    Miaoer Yu;Jungyeon Hwang;Timothy J. Deming

  • Facile synthesis of block copolypeptides of defined architecture

    Timothy J. Deming

  • Synthetic polypeptides for biomedical applications

    Timothy J. Deming

  • Synthetic Polypeptide Mimics of Marine Adhesives

    Miaoer Yu;Timothy J. Deming

  • Required growth facilitators propel axon regeneration across complete spinal cord injury

    Mark A. Anderson;Mark A. Anderson;Timothy M. O’Shea;Joshua E. Burda;Yan Ao

  • Charged polypeptide Vesicles with Controllable Diameter

    Eric P. Holowka;Darrin J. Pochan;Timothy J. Deming

  • Polyarginine segments in block copolypeptides drive both vesicular assembly and intracellular delivery.

    Eric P. Holowka;Victor Z. Sun;Daniel T. Kamei;Timothy J. Deming

  • Synthesis of Side-Chain Modified Polypeptides

    Timothy J. Deming;Timothy J. Deming

  • Translocation of HIV TAT peptide and analogues induced by multiplexed membrane and cytoskeletal interactions

    Abhijit Mishra;Ghee Hwee Lai;Ghee Hwee Lai;Nathan W. Schmidt;Nathan W. Schmidt;Victor Z. Sun

  • Cooperative Assembly of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Block Copolypeptides in Aqueous Media

    Larken E. Euliss;Stephanie G. Grancharov;Stephen O'brien;Timothy J. Deming

  • Mussel byssus and biomolecular materials

    Timothy J Deming

  • Nanoscale double emulsions stabilized by single-component block copolypeptides

    Jarrod A. Hanson;Connie B. Chang;Sara M. Graves;Zhibo Li

  • Living polymerization of α-amino acid-N-carboxyanhydrides

    Timothy J. Deming

  • Polypeptide Materials: New synthetic methods and applications

    Timothy J. Deming

  • Methodologies for preparation of synthetic block copolypeptides: materials with future promise in drug delivery.

    Timothy J. Deming

  • Polypeptide-templated synthesis of hexagonal silica platelets.

    Melanie M Tomczak;Diana D Glawe;Lawrence F Drummy;Charles G Lawrence

Frequent Co-Authors

Darrin J. Pochan
Darrin J. Pochan University of Delaware
Michael V. Sofroniew
Michael V. Sofroniew University of California, Los Angeles
Galen D. Stucky
Galen D. Stucky University of California, Santa Barbara
Jianjun Cheng
Jianjun Cheng University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce M. Novak
Bruce M. Novak The University of Texas at Dallas
Joseph W. Ziller
Joseph W. Ziller University of California, Irvine
William J. Evans
William J. Evans University of California, Irvine
Z. Hong Zhou
Z. Hong Zhou University of California, Los Angeles
Zhibo Li
Zhibo Li Qingdao University of Science and Technology

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