Paul Gatenholm, Ph.D.

Professor
Material Science and Engineering

Virginia Tech
309 Holden Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Phone:  540-231-3152
E-mail: pgatenho@vt.edu



EDUCATION:

	B.S., Organic Chemistry; University of Stockholm, 1979
	Ph.D., Polymer Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, 1985

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

	Biomaterials. Design and fabrication of biomimetic scaffolds for tissue engineering
	Tissue engineering of bone, cartilage, meniscus, blood vessels Biomineralization and osteointegration
	Mechanical stimulation of scaffolds-cells constructs in bioreactors

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

	Bodin, A., Ahrenstedt, L., Fink, H.,  Brumer, H.,  Risberg, B., and Gatenholm, P., Modification of Nano Cellulose with a Xyloglucan RGD Conjugate Enhances Adhesion and Proliferation of Endothelial Cells: Implications for Tissue Engineering, Biomacromolecules, 8, 3697-3704 (2007)
	Gelin, K., Bodin, A., Gatenholm, P., Mihranyan, A., Edwards, K and Strømme, M.,  Characterisation of Water in Bacterial Cellulose Using Dielectric Spectroscopy and Electron Microscopy, Polymer, 48, 7623-7631 (2007)
	Bodin, A., Concaro, S., Brittberg, M., and Gatenholm, P., Bacterial Cellulose as a Potential Meniscus Implant, Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 48, 7623-7631 (2007)
	Borg, E., Frenot, A., Walkenström, P., Gisselfält, K., Gretzer, C., and Gatenholm, P., Electrospinning of Degradable Elastomeric Nanofibers with Various Morphology and Their Interaction with Human Fibroblasts, Journal of Applied Polymer Science, in press
	Bodin, A., Bäckdahl, H., Fink, H.,  Gustafsson, L., Risberg, B., and Gatenholm, P., Influence of cultivation conditions on the mechanical and morphological properties of bacterial cellulose tubes, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 97 (2), 425-434 (2007)
	Sjöqvist, M. and Gatenholm, P., Effect of Water Content in Potato Amylopectin Starch  on Microwave Foaming Process, Journal of Polymers and the Environment, Vol 15, 1, 43-50, (2007)
	Teeri, T., Brumer, H., Daniel, G., and Gatenholm, P., Biomimetic engineering of cellulose-based materials, Trends in Biotechnology, 25, 7, 299-307 (2007)
	Concaro, S., Nicklasson, E., Elowson L., Brittberg, M., Lindahl, A., and Gatenholm, P., The Effect of Human Chondrocyte Concentration on Properties of Tissue Engineered Cartilage,  Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, accepted
	Helenius, G., Bäckdahl, H., Bodin, A., Nanmark, U., Gatenholm, P., and Risberg, B., In vivo Biocompatibility of Bacterial Cellulose, J. Biomed. Mater. Res. A., 76(2), 431-438 (2006)
	Bäckdahl, H., Helenius, G., Bodin, A., Johansson, B., Nanmark, U., Risberg, B., and Gatenholm, P.,  Bacterial Cellulose as Potential Scaffold for Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels: Mechanical Properties and Cell Interactions, Biomaterials, 27, 2141-2149 (2006)
	Bodin, A., Gustafsson, L., and Gatenholm, P., Surface Engineered Bacterial Cellulose as Template for Crystallization of Calcium Phosphate, J. Biomater. Sci. Polymer Edn., 17 (4), 435-447 (2006)
	Bodin, A.,  Bäckdahl, H.,  Gustafsson, Lena., and Gatenholm, Paul., Manufacturing and characterization of bacterial cellulose tubes using two different fermentation techniques, in Modern Multidisciplinary Applied Microbiology: Exploiting Microbes and Their Interactions, Ed: Mendez-Vilas, A., Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2006, pp. 619-622 (806)
	Svensson, A., Nicklasson, E. Harrah,T., Panilaitis, B., Kaplan, D. Brittberg. M, and Gatenholm, P., Bacterial Cellulose as a Potential Scaffold for Tissue Engineering of Cartilage,  Biomaterials, 26, 419-431 (2005)