About me

Research Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Spoken languages

English

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Dr. Gullbrand is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Emily E Sharp, Lorielle Laforest, Yuqi Zhang, Karen L Xu, Zhiliang Cheng, Jason A Burdick, Sarah E Gullbrand, Robert L Mauck Streptavidin Functionalized Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels for Controlled and Customizable Drug Delivery , Acta Biomaterialia, in press: 2026

Janai A Augustin, Kevin G Burt, Matthew Fainor, Brianna Orozco, Sung Yoen Kim, Carla Scanzello, Sarah Gullbrand Facet Joint Synovial Pathology as a Driver of Spinal Degeneration , OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis: 2026

Emily E. Sharp, Marcia Muerner, Barbora Kubincova, Junxuan Ma, Emily S. Cook, Sarah E. Gullbrand, Robert L. Mauck, Sibylle Grad Durability And Impact Of Annulus Fibrosus Repair With Functionalized Hydrogels Under Loading , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society: 2026

Brianna S. Orozco, Alexandra J. Baranyai, Matthew Fainor, Mohamed Habib, Aaron J. Fields, Sarah E. Gullbrand Comparison Of Transport Properties Between Human And Tissue-engineered Vertebral Endplates , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, 892: 2026

Janai Augustin, Kevin Burt, Caitlin Barrett, Harvey E. Smith, Robert L. Mauck, Thomas P. Schaer, Sarah E. Gullbrand Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Correlates With Neuroinflammation In A Translational Large Animal Model , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Orthopeadic Research Society: 2026

Janai Augustin, Kevin Burt, Matthew Fainor, Brianna S. Orozco, Sung Yeon Kim ,Carla R. Scanzello, Sarah E. Gullbrand Synovium-cartilage Crosstalk In Facet Joint Osteoarthritis And Correlations With Adjacent Disc Degeneration , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society: 2026

Pushpak Pondugula, Tristan Pepper, Christine Lee, Lauren Foster, Jay M. Patel, Sarah E. Gullbrand Injectable Tissue Penetrating Hyaluronic Acid (iTP-HA) Protects Against Early Facet Cartilage Degeneration , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society: 2026

Austin C. Jenk, Brendan Stoeckl, Emily Cook, Emily Sharp, Eric Schweppe, Liane M. Miller, Sarah E. Gullbrand, Robert L. Mauck Therapeutic NAC-delivering Microgels Maintain Chondrocyte Viability After Cartilage Impact Injury , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society: 2026

Matthew Fainor, Alexandra J. Baranyai, Robert L. Mauck, Harvey E. Smith, Sarah E. Gullbrand Il-1beta Does Not Exacerbate Cell Death In A Large-scale Tissue-engineered Intervertebral Disc , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society: 2026

Matthew Fainor, Hunter Levis, Alexandra J. Baranyai, Robby D. Bowles, Sarah E. Gullbrand CRISPR Regulation Of Noggin For Growth-factor-free Vertebral Endplate Tissue Engineering , Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society: 2026

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Sarah Elizabeth Gullbrand, PhD