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Group: Pluripotent and Embryonic Stem Cells
Background
Dr Wael Kafienah leads a team focused on understanding the molecular biology of stem cells for applications in skeletal tissue engineering. He has many years of experience in the UK and US developing methods for cartilage tissue engineering using stem cells. That work lead to significant public (see BBC news story “New hope for arthritis sufferers”) and scientific interest (Arthritis and Rheumatism Journal) and earned him the prestigious Garrod Prize 2008 awarded by the British Society of Rheumatology. The team is building on this work by investigating the more versatile pluripotent stem cells. Dr Kafienah holds 3 patents that resulted recently in a University of Bristol spin-out company (Azellon Cell Therapeutics). He was an executive committee member of the British Society for Matrix Biology.
Specific research interests
- Pharmacological regulation of adult and pluripotent stem cells for cartilage repair and heart disease
- Cartilage tissue engineering using pluripotent stem cells
- Novel biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery
- Endogenous repair of damaged cartilage
- Bacterial-stem cell interactions in osteomyelitis
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Projects
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A preclinical model for the treatment of osteoarthritis using chondrogenic human induced pluripotent stem cells
1/01/17 → 31/08/17
Project: Research
Research Output
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Chondroinduction of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Cellulose-Silk Composite nanofibrous Substrates: The Role of Substrate Elasticity
Begum, R., Perriman, A., Su, B., Scarpa, F. & Kafienah, W., 19 Mar 2020, In : Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 8, 14 p., 197.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
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Bioreactor manufactured cartilage grafts repair acute and chronic osteochondral defects in large animal studies
Vukasovic, A., Asnaghi, M. A., Kostesic, P., Quasnichka, H. L., Cozzolino, C., Pusic, M., Hails, L., Trainor, N., Krause, C., Figallo, E., Filardo, G., Kon, E., Wixmerten, A., Maticic, D., Pellegrini, G., Kafienah, W., Hudetz, D., Smith, T., Martin, I., Ivkovic, A. & 1 others, , 6 Sep 2019, In : Cell Proliferation. 14 p., e12653.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
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Effects of Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields on Chondrocytes in Short-Term Cultures
Kozaci, L., Bilgin, M., Carhan, A., Çalışkan, Ş. & Kafienah, W., 23 Mar 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Cyprus Journal of Medical Sciences .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)