Aleksander Skardal

10.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
91 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Aleksander Skardal is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aleksander Skardal has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 30 papers in Oncology and 17 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Aleksander Skardal's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (59 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (28 papers) and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (14 papers). Aleksander Skardal is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (59 papers), Cancer Cells and Metastasis (28 papers) and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (14 papers). Aleksander Skardal collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Aleksander Skardal's co-authors include Anthony Atala, Shay Söker, Glenn D. Prestwich, Mahesh Devarasetty, Sean V. Murphy, Thomas Shupe, Jianxing Zhang, Andrea Mazzocchi, Julio Aleman and John D. Jackson and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Aleksander Skardal

89 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Bioprinted Amniotic Fluid-Derived Stem Cells Accelerate Healing of Large Skin Wounds

2012 471 citations Aleksander Skardal, David L. Mack et al. profile →
Organoid-on-a-chip and body-on-a-chip systems for drug screening and disease modeling

2016 378 citations Aleksander Skardal, Anthony Atala et al. profile →
In Situ Bioprinting of Autologous Skin Cells Accelerates Wound Healing of Extensive Excisional Full-Thickness Wounds

2019 374 citations Sean V. Murphy, Weixin Zhao et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aleksander Skardal United States	42	5.1k	1.8k	1.3k	1.2k	1.2k	91	7.0k
Sandeep T. Koshy United States	22	4.4k 0.9×	631 0.3×	991 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	921 0.8×	30	7.0k
Peter A. Galie United States	24	3.4k 0.7×	992 0.5×	526 0.4×	950 0.8×	887 0.8×	56	5.1k
Jacqueline Alblas Netherlands	41	3.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	453 0.3×	1.8k 1.5×	1.2k 1.0×	84	6.2k
Amir M. Ghaemmaghami United Kingdom	41	3.0k 0.6×	542 0.3×	363 0.3×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	123	6.5k
Brendon M. Baker United States	38	4.8k 1.0×	757 0.4×	654 0.5×	1.5k 1.3×	2.3k 1.9×	96	8.3k
Brendan A.C. Harley United States	50	4.3k 0.8×	419 0.2×	595 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.8k 1.6×	172	8.4k
Grissel Trujillo‐de Santiago Mexico	27	3.6k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	255 0.2×	657 0.6×	644 0.5×	86	5.2k
Jeroen Rouwkema Netherlands	29	4.0k 0.8×	687 0.4×	408 0.3×	1.4k 1.2×	2.0k 1.7×	59	5.9k
Matteo Moretti Italy	37	3.5k 0.7×	553 0.3×	958 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	140	5.6k

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Rodríguez, Marco A., et al.. (2025). A Microfluidic Blood Brain Barrier Model to Study the Influence of Glioblastoma Tumor Cells on BBB Function. Small. 21(19). e2411361–e2411361. 1 indexed citations

Hisey, Colin L., et al.. (2024). Tuning a bioengineered hydrogel for studying astrocyte reactivity in glioblastoma. Acta Biomaterialia. 189. 155–167. 3 indexed citations

Song, Qianqian, Shiny Amala Priya Rajan, Aleksander Skardal, et al.. (2023). Detection of lineage-reprogramming efficiency of tumor cells in a 3D-printed liver-on-a-chip model. Theranostics. 13(14). 4905–4918. 12 indexed citations

Venere, Monica, et al.. (2023). Cancer Cell Targeting, Magnetic Sorting, and SERS Detection through Cell Surface Receptors. ACS Sensors. 8(12). 4636–4645. 7 indexed citations

Sivakumar, Hemamylammal, et al.. (2022). Immersion bioprinting of hyaluronan and collagen bioink-supported 3D patient-derived brain tumor organoids. Biomedical Materials. 18(1). 15014–15014. 34 indexed citations

Duarte‐Sanmiguel, Silvia, Jordan Moore, Aleksander Skardal, et al.. (2021). In Situ Deployment of Engineered Extracellular Vesicles into the Tumor Niche via Myeloid‐Derived Suppressor Cells. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 11(5). e2101619–e2101619. 17 indexed citations

Votanopoulos, Konstantinos I. & Aleksander Skardal. (2020). ASO Author Reflections: Co-cultured Lymph Node and Tumor Organoids as a Platform for the Creation of Adaptive Immunity and Predict Response to Immunotherapy. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 27(6). 1968–1969. 11 indexed citations

Maloney, Erin K., Hemamylammal Sivakumar, Julio Aleman, et al.. (2020). Immersion Bioprinting of Tumor Organoids in Multi-Well Plates for Increasing Chemotherapy Screening Throughput. Micromachines. 11(2). 208–208. 138 indexed citations

Bedell, Matthew L., Anthony J. Melchiorri, Julio Aleman, Aleksander Skardal, & Antonios G. Mikos. (2019). A high-throughput approach to compare the biocompatibility of candidate bioink formulations. Bioprinting. 17. e00068–e00068. 15 indexed citations

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Votanopoulos, Konstantinos I., Steven D. Forsythe, Hemamylammal Sivakumar, et al.. (2019). Model of Patient-Specific Immune-Enhanced Organoids for Immunotherapy Screening: Feasibility Study. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 27(6). 1956–1967. 127 indexed citations

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Mazzocchi, Andrea, Shay Söker, & Aleksander Skardal. (2019). 3D bioprinting for high-throughput screening: Drug screening, disease modeling, and precision medicine applications. Applied Physics Reviews. 6(1). 123 indexed citations

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Serban, Monica A. & Aleksander Skardal. (2018). Hyaluronan chemistries for three-dimensional matrix applications. Matrix Biology. 78-79. 337–345. 33 indexed citations

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Votanopoulos, Konstantinos I., Perry Shen, Aleksander Skardal, & Edward A. Levine. (2018). Peritoneal Metastases from Appendiceal Cancer. Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America. 27(3). 551–561. 14 indexed citations

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Devarasetty, Mahesh, Andrea Mazzocchi, & Aleksander Skardal. (2018). Applications of Bioengineered 3D Tissue and Tumor Organoids in Drug Development and Precision Medicine: Current and Future. BioDrugs. 32(1). 53–68. 59 indexed citations

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Devarasetty, Mahesh, Aleksander Skardal, Kyle R. Cowdrick, Frank C. Marini, & Shay Söker. (2017). Bioengineered Submucosal Organoids for In Vitro Modeling of Colorectal Cancer. Tissue Engineering Part A. 23(19-20). 1026–1041. 37 indexed citations

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George, Sunil, et al.. (2017). Recreating the Hematopoietic Microenvironment in Vitro Using Microfluidic “on-a-Chip” Technology Enables the Study of Interactions of Normal and Malignant HSPC with Specific Bone Marrow Niches. Blood. 130. 3779–3779. 2 indexed citations

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Skardal, Aleksander, et al.. (2016). A tunable hydrogel system for long‐term release of cell‐secreted cytokines and bioprinted in situ wound cell delivery. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied Biomaterials. 105(7). 1986–2000. 91 indexed citations

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Markert, Chad D., Xinyi Guo, Aleksander Skardal, et al.. (2013). Characterizing the micro-scale elastic modulus of hydrogels for use in regenerative medicine. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 27. 115–127. 111 indexed citations

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Skardal, Aleksander, David L. Mack, Anthony Atala, & Shay Söker. (2012). Substrate elasticity controls cell proliferation, surface marker expression and motile phenotype in amniotic fluid-derived stem cells. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 17. 307–316. 89 indexed citations

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Skardal, Aleksander, et al.. (2008). Engineered extracellular matrices with cleavable crosslinkers for cell expansion and easy cell recovery. Biomaterials. 29(34). 4521–4531. 82 indexed citations

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