About me
- Professor of Neurosurgery
My Locations
Qualifications and experience
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), National
- BioFabUSA / Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI), National
- Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), National
- Competitive Pilot Project Fund, VISN4, Department of Veterans Affairs, National
- Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC), National
- Neurotrauma Society, National
- Society for Neuroscience, National
- U.S. Department of Defense, Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM), National
Treatments and Conditions
My research
Adewole, D. O., Struzyna, L. A., Harris, J. P., Nemes, A. D., Burrell, J. C., Petrov, D., Kraft, R. H., Chen, H. I., Serruya, M. D., Wolf, J. A., Cullen, D. K. Development of optically-controlled "living electrodes" with long-projecting axon tracts for a synaptic brain-machine interface , Science Advances, 7(4): 2021,eaay5347
Keating, C. E., Browne, K. D., Cullen, D. K. Dietary manipulation of vulnerability to traumatic brain injury-induced neuronal plasma membrane permeability , Experimental Neurology, 340: 2021,113649
Katiyar, K. S., Struzyna, L. A. (co-first author), Morand, J. P., Burrell, J. C., Clements, B., Laimo, F. A., Browne, K. D., Kohn, J., Ali, Z., Ledebur, H. C., Smith, D. H., Cullen, D. K. Tissue engineered axon tracts serve as living scaffolds to accelerate axonal regeneration and functional recovery following peripheral nerve injury in rats , Frontiers in Biotechnology & Bioengineering , 8: 2020,492
Das, S., Browne, K. D., Laimo, F. A., Maggiore, J. C., Hilman M. C., Kaiser, H., Aguilar, C. A., Ali, Z. S., Mourkioti, F., Cullen, D. K. Pre-innervated tissue engineered muscle promotes a pro-regenerative microenvironment following volumetric muscle loss , Nature Communications Biology , 3(1): 2020,330
Grovola, M. R., Paleologos, N., Wofford, K. L., Harris, J. P., Browne, K. D., Johnson, V. E., Duda, J. E., Wolf, J. A., Cullen, D. K. Mossy cell hypertrophy and synaptic changes in the hilus following mild diffuse brain injury in pigs , J Neuroinflammation, 17(1): 2020,44
Keating, C. E. and Cullen, D. K. Mechanosensation in traumatic brain injury , Neurobiology of Disease, 148: 2021,105210
Maggiore, J. C., Burrell, J. C. (co-first author), Browne, K. D., Katiyar, K. S., Laimo, F. A., Zarina, A. S., Kaplan, H. M., Rosen, J. M., Cullen, D. K. Tissue engineered axon-based “living scaffolds” promote survival of spinal cord motor neurons following peripheral nerve repair , J Tissue Engin & Regen Med , 14(12): 2020,1892-1907
Das, S., Gordián-Vélez, W. (co-first author), Ledebur, H. C., Mourkioti, F., Rompolas, P., Chen, H. I., Serruya, M. D., Cullen, D. K. Innervation: the missing link for biofabricated tissues and organs , npj Regenerative Medicine, 5: 2020,11
Cullen, D. K., Gordián-Vélez, W. J., Struzyna, L. A., Jgamadze, D., Lim, J., Wofford, K. L., Browne, K. D., Chen, H. I. Bundled three-dimensional human axon tracts derived from cerebral organoids , iScience, 21: 2019,57-67
Struzyna, L. A., Browne, K. D., Brodnik, Z. D., Burrell, J. C., Harris, J. P., Chen, H. I., Wolf, J. A., Panzer, K. V., Lim, J., Duda, J. E., España, R. A., Cullen, D. K. Tissue engineered nigrostriatal pathway for treatment of Parkinson’s disease , J Tissue Engin & Regen Med, 12(7): 2018,1702-16