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David Kaplan |
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Professor & Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Director, Bioengineering & Biotechnology Center
Director, Tissue Engineering Resource Center
Appointed Associate Editor, Biomacromolecules
Secondary appointments with the departments of Biology and Chemistry; Tufts School of Dental Medicine; and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.
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Biomedical Engineering Department
Chemical & Biological Engineering
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1975 B.S., State University of New York at Albany
1978 Ph.D., State University of New York at Syracuse and Syracuse University |
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Natural Biomaterials
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2006 - Endowed Dean’s Professorship in Bioengineering - Tufts University
2006 - Henry & Madeleine Fischer Faculty Award - Tufts University
2003 - Elected Fellow, American Institute Medical & Biomedical Engineering
1999 - Editorial Boards - Applied Environmental Microbiology, Biomolecular
Materials, Advanced Materials
1998 - Outstanding Faculty Award - Tufts University
1997 - 01 Chairman, Grants Review Panel, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
1997- 01 Editor, Book Series: Bioengineering Materials - Birkhauser
1995 - Awarded Senior Research Scientist (ST) Position - U.S. Government
1990 - Decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service - U.S. Government |
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david.kaplan@tufts.edu
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Extracellular matrix remodeling – methods to quantify cell-matrix interactions. L.C. Abraham, J.F. Dice, P.F. Finn, N.T. Mesires, K. Lee, D.L. Kaplan. Biomaterials, 28: 151-161 (2007).
Effect of water on the thermal properties of silk fibroin. X. Hu, D.L. Kaplan, P. Cebe. Thermochimica Acta. In press (2007).
Biosynthesis and applications of silk-like and collagen-like proteins. C. Wong, J. Huang, D.L. Kaplan. In press (2007).
RGD-functionalized bioengineered spider dragline silk biomaterial. E. Bini, C. Wong, J. Huang, V. Karageorgiou, B. Kitchel, D.L. Kaplan. Biomacromolecules. In press (2007).
Controlled release biopolymers to enhance the immune response. G.R. Castro, B. Panilaitis, E. Bora, D.L. Kaplan. Molecular Pharmaceutics. In press (2007).
Bioengineered spider silk-dentin matrix protein 1 chimeric protein induces hydroxyapatite nucleation. J. Huang, C. Wong, A. George, D.L. Kaplan. Biomaterials. In press (2007).
Silk microspheres for encapsulation and controlled release. X. Wang, E. Wenk, L. Meinel, D.L. Kaplan. J Controlled Release. In press (2007).
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