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D-Index
70
Citations
17701
World Ranking
1050
National Ranking
354

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Wei Sun is a researcher affiliated with Drexel University in the United States, specializing primarily in Medicine and Engineering. Their work spans several interdisciplinary fields, most notably Biomedical Engineering and Surgery, with additional contributions in Automotive Engineering, Biomaterials, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The scientist's research focus includes a range of advanced biomedical and engineering topics. Key areas of study are 3D Printing in Biomedical Research, Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies, Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation, Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications, Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, and Bone Tissue Engineering Materials.

Wei Sun has contributed extensively to the literature, with a number of recent papers reflecting their focus and collaborations. Notable publications include:

  • The bioprinting roadmap (2020, Biofabrication)
  • Three-dimensional bioprinted hepatorganoids prolong survival of mice with liver failure (2020, Gut)
  • Printability in extrusion bioprinting (2021, Biofabrication)
  • Three-dimensional bio-printing of primary human hepatocellular carcinoma for personalized medicine (2020, Biomaterials)
  • Responsive biomaterials for 3D bioprinting: A review (2022, Materials Today)

Frequent collaborators include Aylin Simsir, Tamar Brandler, Yuan Pang, Yongcong Fang, and Rong Xia, with sustained partnerships over multiple publications.

The scientist's work is featured mostly in journals such as the Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology, Biofabrication, Diagnostic Cytopathology, Biomedical Materials, and Advanced Healthcare Materials.

Over the course of their career, Wei Sun has received recognitions including being named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2020 and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Effect of bioink properties on printability and cell viability for 3D bioplotting of embryonic stem cells.

    Liliang Ouyang;Rui Yao;Yu Zhao;Wei Sun;Wei Sun

  • A definition of bioinks and their distinction from biomaterial inks.

    J. Groll;J. A. Burdick;D. W. Cho;B. Derby

  • Effects of dispensing pressure and nozzle diameter on cell survival from solid freeform fabrication-based direct cell writing.

    Robert Chang;Jae Nam;Wei Sun

  • 3D Printing of Shear-Thinning Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels with Secondary Cross-Linking

    Liliang Ouyang;Liliang Ouyang;Christopher B. Highley;Christopher B. Rodell;Wei Sun;Wei Sun

  • Fabrication of three-dimensional polycaprolactone/hydroxyapatite tissue scaffolds and osteoblast-scaffold interactions in vitro.

    Lauren Shor;Selçuk Güçeri;Xuejun Wen;Milind Gandhi

  • Three-dimensional printing of Hela cells for cervical tumor model in vitro.

    Yu Zhao;Rui Yao;Liliang Ouyang;Hongxu Ding

  • Characterization of cell viability during bioprinting processes.

    Kalyani Nair;Milind Gandhi;Saif Khalil;Karen Chang Yan

  • Bio-CAD modeling and its applications in computer-aided tissue engineering

    W. Sun;B. Starly;J. Nam;A. Darling

  • A Generalizable Strategy for the 3D Bioprinting of Hydrogels from Nonviscous Photo-crosslinkable Inks.

    Liliang Ouyang;Liliang Ouyang;Christopher B. Highley;Wei Sun;Jason A. Burdick

  • Bioprinting three-dimensional cell-laden tissue constructs with controllable degradation.

    Zhengjie Wu;Xin Su;Yuanyuan Xu;Bin Kong

  • A Survey of Design Rationale Systems: Approaches, Representation, Capture and Retrieval

    William C. Regli;Xiaochun Hu;Michael E. Atwood;Wei Sun

  • Multi‐nozzle deposition for construction of 3D biopolymer tissue scaffolds

    S. Khalil;J. Nam;W. Sun

  • Recent development on computer aided tissue engineering--a review.

    Wei Sun;Pallavi Lal

  • Computer-aided tissue engineering: overview, scope and challenges.

    Wei Sun;Andrew Darling;Binil Starly;Jae Nam

  • The bioprinting roadmap

    Wei Sun;Wei Sun;Binil Starly;Andrew C. Daly;Jason A. Burdick

  • Bioprinting endothelial cells with alginate for 3D tissue constructs.

    Saif Khalil;Wei Sun

  • The influence of printing parameters on cell survival rate and printability in microextrusion-based 3D cell printing technology.

    Yu Zhao;Yang Li;Shuangshuang Mao;Wei Sun

  • Precision extruding deposition and characterization of cellular poly‐ε‐caprolactone tissue scaffolds

    F. Wang;L. Shor;A. Darling;S. Khalil

  • The Boom in 3D-Printed Sensor Technology

    Yuanyuan Xu;Xiaoyue Wu;Xiao Guo;Bin Kong

  • Computer-aided tissue engineering: application to biomimetic modelling and design of tissue scaffolds.

    Wei Sun;Binil Starly;Andrew Darling;Connie Gomez

  • Biofabrication of a three-dimensional liver micro-organ as an in vitro drug metabolism model

    Robert Chang;Kamal Emami;Honglu Wu;Wei Sun

  • Microfluidic hydrogels for tissue engineering

    Guo You Huang;Li Hong Zhou;Qian Cheng Zhang;Yong Mei Chen

  • Precision extruding deposition (PED) fabrication of polycaprolactone (PCL) scaffolds for bone tissue engineering.

    Lauren Shor;Selçuk Güçeri;Robert Chang;Jennifer Gordon

  • Direct Cell Writing of 3D Microorgan for In Vitro Pharmacokinetic Model

    Robert Chang;Jae Nam;Wei Sun

  • Voltammetric studies of the oxygen-titanium binary system in molten calcium chloride

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Frequent Co-Authors

Chungu Xia
Chungu Xia Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jing-Feng Li
Jing-Feng Li Tsinghua University
Shilin Chen
Shilin Chen Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Ali Shokoufandeh
Ali Shokoufandeh Drexel University
Jingyuan Song
Jingyuan Song Peking Union Medical College Hospital
William C. Regli
William C. Regli University of Maryland, College Park
Jiangbo Yu
Jiangbo Yu University of Washington
John A. Elefteriades
John A. Elefteriades Yale University
Wonwoo Nam
Wonwoo Nam Ewha Womans University
Jian Meng
Jian Meng Chinese Academy of Sciences

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