What We've done

2025

• Hoi Y. Kwon, Christopher Streilein, R. Chase Cornelison (2025). Convective forces contribute to post-traumatic degeneration after spinal cord injury. Bioengineering and Translational Medicine, e10739. doi:10.1002/btm2.10739.

2023

• R Louisthelmy, BM Burke, RC Cornelison (2023). Brain Cancer Cell-Derived Matrices and Effects on Astrocyte Migration. Cells Tissues Organs, 212(1), 18-28.

2022​

• RA Wachs, SM Wellman, SL Porvasnik, EH Lakes, RC Cornelison, YH Song, ... and CE Schmidt (2022). Apoptosis-Decellularized Peripheral Nerve Scaffold Allows Regeneration across Nerve Gap. Cells Tissues Organs, 1-11.
• RC Cornelison*, JX Yuan*, KM Tate, A Petrosky, G Beeghly, M Bloomfield, S Schwager, A Berr, C Stine, D Cimini, J Mandell, BW Purow, B Horton, and JM Munson (2022). A patient-designed tissue-engineered model of the infiltrative glioblastoma microenvironment. NPJ Precision Oncology. 6(1), 54. *Equal contributions
• AR Harris, S Esparza, MS Azimi, R Cornelison, FN Azar, DC Llaneza, M Belanger, A Mathew, S Tkachenko, MJ Perez, CB Rosean, RR Bostic, RC Cornelison, KM Tate, SM Peirce-Cottler, C Paquette, A Mills, CN Landen, J Saucerman, PM Dillon, RR Pompano, MA Rutkowski, and JM Munson (2022). Platinum Chemotherapy Induces Lymphangiogenesis in Cancerous and Healthy Tissues That Can be Prevented With Adjuvant Anti-VEGFR3 Therapy. Frontiers in Oncology. 12:801764. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2022.801764. PMCID: PMC8970967.
• R Louisthelmy, BM Burke, and RC Cornelison (2022). Brain cancer cell-derived matrices and effects on astrocyte migration. Cells Tissues Organs.

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2021

• Zilberman A and Cornelison RC (2021).  Microphysiological models of the central nervous system with fluid flow. Brain Research Bulletin. 174: 72-83. PMID: 34029679.

2019

• Brooks EA*, Galarza S*, Gencoglu MF*, Cornelison RC, Munson JM, Peyton SR (2019). Applicability of Drug Response Metrics for Cancer Studies using Biomaterials. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374(1779), 20180226. *Equal contributions

​2018

• Cornelison RC, Brennan CE, Kingsmore KM, Munson JM (2018). Convective forces increase CXCR4-dependent glioblastoma cell invasion in GL261 murine model. Scientific Reports, 8.1: 17057. In the News.
• Cornelison RC and Munson JM (2018). Perspective on translating biomaterials into glioma therapy: Lessons from in vitro models. Frontiers in Materials, 5: 27.

• Da Mesquita S, Louveau A, Vaccari A, Smirnov I, Cornelison RC, Kingsmore KM, Contarino C, Onengut-Gumuscu S, Farber E, Raper D, Viar KE, Baker W, Dabhi N, Oliver G, Rich S, Munson JM, Overall CC, Acton ST, Kipnis J (2018). Functional aspects of meningeal lymphatics in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Nature, 560.7717: 185. PMID: 30046111. Featured on journal cover.​​

• Cornelison RC, Wellman SW, Park JH, Porvasnik SL, Song YH, Wachs RA, Schmidt CE (2018). Development of an apoptosis-assisted decellularization method for maximal preservation of nerve tissue structure. Acta Biomaterialia, 1.77: 116-126. PMID: 29981947. Featured by Science Magazine.
• Cerqueira SR, Lee YS, Cornelison RC, Mertz MW, Wachs RA, Schmidt CE, Bunge MB (2018). Decellularized nerve matrix supports Schwann cell transplants and axon growth following spinal cord injury. Biomaterials, 177: 176-185. PMID: 29929081.
• Cornelison RC, Gonzalez-Rothi EJ, Porvasnik SL, Wellman SM, Park JH, Fuller DD, Schmidt CE (2018). Injectable hydrogels of optimized acellular nerve for injection into the injured spinal cord. Biomedical Materials, 13.3: 034110. PMID: 29380749. 

​Before 2018

• Schmidt CE, Wachs RA, Cornelison RC (2017). Tissue Decellularization Methods. Patent App. 15/744,942.
• Hardy JG, Cornelison RC, Sukhavasi RC, Saballos RJ, Vu P, Kaplan DL, and Schmidt CE (2015). Electroactive tissue scaffolds with aligned pores as instructive platforms for biomimetic tissue engineering. Journal of Bioengineering, 2.1: 15-34. PMID: 28955011. Top 3 cited article in the journal as of 2018.
• Hardy JG, Geissler SA, Aguilar Jr. D, Villancio-Wolter MK, Mouser DJ, Sukhavasi RC, Cornelison RC, Tien LW, Preda RC, Hayden RS, Chow JK, Nguy L, Kaplan DL, Schmidt CE (2015). Instructive conductive 3D silk foam-based bone tissue scaffolds enable electrical stimulation of stem cells for enhanced osteogenic differentiation. Macromolecular Bioscience, 15.11: 1490-1496. PMID: 26033953.

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​University of Massachusetts Amherst
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