Paul Gatenholm, Ph.D.

Professor
Material Science and Engineering

Virginia Tech
309 Holden Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

540-231-3152
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)

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