Regenerative Biomaterials
& Therapeutics Group
CMUBiomedical Engineering | Materials Science & Engineering
Patents
Featured Publication

Surface-Initiated Assembly of Protein Nanofabrics
Feinberg AW and Parker KK. Nano Letters, 2010.

Nanofabrics

Featured Image
ECs on FN Stars

Endothelial cells on patterned micro-stars of fibronectin alter their cytoskeleton in response to the engineered surface
(red = actin; blue = nucleus; green = fibronectin)

Issued

Surface Topography for Non-toxic Bioadhesion Control
A.B. Brennan, R.H. Baney, M.L. Carman, T.G. Estes, A.W. Feinberg, L.H. Wilson and J.F. Schumacher, US Patent No. 7,143,709, December 5, 2006.

Surface Topographies for Non-toxic Bioadhesion Control
A.B. Brennan, R.H. Baney, M.L. Carman, T.G. Estes, A.W. Feinberg, L.H. Wilson and J.F. Schumacher,
US Patent No. 7,650,848, January 26, 2010.

Pending

Engineered Cell Growth On Polymeric Films And Biotechnological Applications Thereof
K.K. Parker, A.W. Feinberg, S.Shevkoplyas, A. Feigel and G.M. Whitesides, US Patent Office, PCT Patent Application filed February 5, 2007.

Biopolymer Structures
K.K. Parker and A.W. Feinberg, US Patent Office, PCT Patent Application filed October 10, 2007.

Boundary Conditions for the Alignment of Cells and Tissues
K.K. Parker, A.W. Feinberg, P. Kuo and C. Guo, US Patent Office, PCT Patent Application filed September 26, 2008.

Construction of Functional Anisotropic Muscle Tissue from Muscle Progenitor Cells
K.K. Parker, A.W. Feinberg, K.R. Chien, P. van der Meer, I. Domian, US Patent Office, PCT Patent Application filed October 2009.

Method for Generating Functionalized Soft Substrates and Micropatterning Cells Thereon
P. Kuo, A.W. Feinberg, K.K. Parker, US Patent Office, PCT Patent Application filed May 22, 2009.

High Throughput Assays for Determining Muscle Function and Devices for Use Therein
K. K. Parker, A.W. Feinberg, A. Grossberg, P. Alford, C. Riplinger, US Provisional Patent Application filed May 1, 2009.

Anisotropic Biological Pacemakers and AV Bypasses
K. K. Parker, C. M. Ripplinger and A. W. Feinberg, US Provisional Application filed October 8, 2009.