Sarah Heilshorn

About

Sarah Heilshorn is the Rickey/Nielsen Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. She also holds courtesy professorships in Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering. Her professional biography on the Stanford Materials Science and Engineering faculty page identifies her as the Department Chair. The page lists her among other faculty members but does not provide further details about her research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Materials science
• Biology
• Pathology
• Medicine
• Nanotechnology
• Neuroscience
• Biomedical engineering
• Chemistry
• Cell biology

Selected publications

• Next-generation cancer organoids

  Nature Materials · 2021 · 446 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• 3D Bioprinting of Cell‐Laden Hydrogels for Improved Biological Functionality

  Advanced Materials · 2021 · 219 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  The encapsulation of cells within gel-phase materials to form bioinks offers distinct advantages for next-generation 3D bioprinting. 3D bioprinting has emerged as a promising tool for patterning cells, but the technology remains limited in its ability to produce biofunctional, tissue-like constructs due to a dearth of materials suitable for bioinks. While early demonstrations commonly used viscous polymers optimized for printability, these materials often lacked cell compatibility and biological…

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• Designer, injectable gels to prevent transplanted Schwann cell loss during spinal cord injury therapy

  Science Advances · 2020 · 135 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Transplantation of patient-derived Schwann cells is a promising regenerative medicine therapy for spinal cord injuries; however, therapeutic efficacy is compromised by inefficient cell delivery. We present a materials-based strategy that addresses three common causes of transplanted cell death: (i) membrane damage during injection, (ii) cell leakage from the injection site, and (iii) apoptosis due to loss of endogenous matrix. Using protein engineering and peptide-based assembly, we designed inj…

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• Advancing models of neural development with biomaterials

  Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2021 · 114 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
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• Dynamic light scattering microrheology for soft and living materials

  Soft Matter · 2020 · 52 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  We present a method for using dynamic light scattering in the single-scattering limit to measure the viscoelastic moduli of soft materials. This microrheology technique only requires a small sample volume of 12 μL to measure up to six decades in time of rheological behavior. We demonstrate the use of dynamic light scattering microrheology (DLSμR) on a variety of soft materials, including dilute polymer solutions, covalently-crosslinked polymer gels, and active, biological fluids. In this work, w…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant DP2OD00647701

  NIH · $2.4M · 2014

• Engineered matrix microarrays to enhance the regenerative potential of iPSC-derived endothelial cells

  NIH · $1.6M · 2018–2024

• Injectable Hydrogels to Protect Transplanted Cells from Hypoxia

  NIH · $1.1M · 2019–2023

Frequent coauthors

• Howard J. Lim

  1600 shared

• Kohei Tabuchi

  Kobe University

  1600 shared

• Andrew J. deMello

  Institute for Biomedical Engineering

  1600 shared

• Paulette Clancy

  Johns Hopkins University

  1600 shared

• Helena S. Azevedo

  i3S - Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde, Universidade do Porto

  1600 shared

• Yuki Nakanishi

  Royal Society of Chemistry

  1600 shared

• Xuefeng Guo

  Peking University

  1600 shared

• Sean Browner

  ETH Zurich

  1600 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering

  Stanford University

  2006

• B.S., Materials Science and Engineering

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  2001

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