Laura E. Niklason

22.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
199 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

Laura E. Niklason is a scholar working on Surgery, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura E. Niklason has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Surgery, 117 papers in Biomaterials and 41 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Laura E. Niklason's work include Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (131 papers), Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (117 papers) and Mesenchymal stem cell research (25 papers). Laura E. Niklason is often cited by papers focused on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (131 papers), Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (117 papers) and Mesenchymal stem cell research (25 papers). Laura E. Niklason collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Laura E. Niklason's co-authors include Róbert Langer, Jinming Gao, Jeffrey H. Lawson, Elizabeth A. Calle, Shannon L. M. Dahl, Cyrille Norotte, Gabor Forgács, Liqiong Gui, Karen K. Hirschi and William M. Abbott and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Laura E. Niklason

192 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Functional Arteries Grown in Vitro

1999 1.3k citations Laura E. Niklason, Karen K. Hirschi et al. Science profile →
Scaffold-free vascular tissue engineering using bioprinting

2009 973 citations Laura E. Niklason et al. Biomaterials profile →
Tissue-Engineered Lungs for in Vivo Implantation

2010 892 citations Thomas Petersen, Elizabeth A. Calle et al. Science profile →
Repair and Regeneration of the Respiratory System: Complexity, Plasticity, and Mechanisms of Lung Stem Cell Function

2014 618 citations Laura E. Niklason, Andrew V. Le et al. profile →
Acellular Normal and Fibrotic Human Lung Matrices as a Culture System for In Vitro Investigation

2012 509 citations Laura E. Niklason et al. profile →
Bioengineered human acellular vessels for dialysis access in patients with end-stage renal disease: two phase 2 single-arm trials

2016 260 citations Jeffrey H. Lawson, Tomasz Jakimowicz et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Humacyte Acellular Tissue-Engineered Vessel in a Real-World Combat Setting: A Retrospective Observational Multicenter Study 2025 ·Military Medicine ·Shamik Parikh, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Laura E. Niklason	0
2	Short-term performance of Symvess (acellular tissue engineered vessel-tyod) compared to external control data for autologous vein in treatment of extremity arterial injury 2025 ·Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open ·Ravi R. Rajani, Fulton Velez, (unknown), (unknown), Luigi Pascarella, Daniel C. Malone, Todd E. Rasmussen, Laura E. Niklason, Shamik Parikh	0
3	Decellularization compromises mechanical and structural properties of the native trachea 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Allison M. Greaney, Abhay B. Ramachandra, Yifan Yuan, Arina Korneva, Jay D. Humphrey, Laura E. Niklason	5
4	Rational engineering of lung alveolar epithelium 2023 ·npj Regenerative Medicine ·Katherine L. Leiby, Yifan Yuan, (unknown), Micha Sam Brickman Raredon, Taylor Adams, Pavlina Baevova, Allison M. Greaney, Karen K. Hirschi, Stuart G. Campbell, Naftali Kaminski, Erica L. Herzog, Laura E. Niklason	12
5	Five Year Outcomes in Patients with End Stage Renal Disease Who Received a Bioengineered Human Acellular Vessel for Dialysis Access 2022 ·EJVES Vascular Forum ·Tomasz Jakimowicz, Stanisław Przywara, (unknown), Alison Pilgrim, (unknown), Norbert Zapotoczny, Tomasz Zubilewicz, Jeffrey H. Lawson, Laura E. Niklason	22
6	Comprehensive visualization of cell–cell interactions in single-cell and spatial transcriptomics with NICHES 2022 ·Bioinformatics ·Micha Sam Brickman Raredon, Junchen Yang, Neeharika Kothapalli, Wesley Lewis, Naftali Kaminski, Laura E. Niklason, Yuval Kluger	35
7	An ex vivo physiologic and hyperplastic vessel culture model to study intra-arterial stent therapies 2021 ·Biomaterials ·Juan Wang, Mehmet H. Kural, Jonathan Wu, Katherine L. Leiby, Vinayak Mishra, (unknown), Guangxin Li, Jiesi Luo, Allison M. Greaney, George Tellides, Yibing Qyang, Nan Huang, Laura E. Niklason	14
8	Bioengineered human blood vessels 2020 ·Science ·Laura E. Niklason, Jeffrey H. Lawson	181
9	Bioengineering the Blood‐gas Barrier 2020 ·Comprehensive physiology ·Katherine L. Leiby, Micha Sam Brickman Raredon, Laura E. Niklason	4
10	Critical Considerations for Regeneration of Vascularized Composite Tissues 2020 ·Tissue Engineering Part B Reviews ·(unknown), (unknown), Paul F. Pasquina, Laura E. Niklason, Luis M. Alvarez, (unknown)	13
11	The History of Engineered Tracheal Replacements: Interpreting the Past and Guiding the Future 2020 ·Tissue Engineering Part B Reviews ·Allison M. Greaney, Laura E. Niklason	25
12	Single-cell connectomic analysis of adult mammalian lungs 2019 ·Science Advances ·Micha Sam Brickman Raredon, Taylor Adams, Yasir Suhail, Jonas C. Schupp, Sergio Poli, Nir Neumark, Katherine L. Leiby, Allison M. Greaney, Yifan Yuan, Corey Horien, George C. Linderman, Alexander J. Engler, Daniel J. Boffa, Yuval Kluger, Iván O. Rosas, Andre Levchenko, Naftali Kaminski, Laura E. Niklason	116
13	Modular design of a tissue engineered pulsatile conduit using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes 2019 ·Acta Biomaterialia ·Jin‐Kyu Park, Christopher W. Anderson, Lorenzo R. Sewanan, Mehmet H. Kural, Yan Huang, Jiesi Luo, Liqiong Gui, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Subhash K. Das, Juan Wang, Laura E. Niklason, Stuart G. Campbell, Yibing Qyang	24
14	Microvessel Network Formation and Interactions with Pancreatic Islets in Three-Dimensional Chip Cultures 2019 ·Tissue Engineering Part A ·(unknown), (unknown), Laura E. Niklason	35
15	New Functional Tools for Antithrombogenic Activity Assessment of Live Surface Glycocalyx 2016 ·Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Sashka Dimitrievska, Liqiong Gui, Amanda Weyers, (unknown), Chao Cai, Wei Wu, Charles T. Tuggle, Sumati Sundaram, Jenna L. Balestrini, David A. Slattery, (unknown), Themis R. Kyriakides, John M. Tarbell, Robert J. Linhardt, Laura E. Niklason	19
16	Osteogenic Performance of Donor-Matched Human Adipose and Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Cells Under Dynamic Culture 2015 ·Tissue Engineering Part A ·Wei Wu, Andrew V. Le, Julio J. Mendez, Julie Chang, Laura E. Niklason, Derek M. Steinbacher	36
17	Epithelial Cell Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Decellularized Lung Scaffolds 2014 ·Tissue Engineering Part A ·Julio J. Mendez, Mahboobe Ghaedi, Derek M. Steinbacher, Laura E. Niklason	53
18	Inhibition of MicroRNA-29 Enhances Elastin Levels in Cells Haploinsufficient for Elastin and in Bioengineered Vessels—Brief Report 2011 ·Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology ·Pei Zhang, Angela Huang, Jacopo Ferruzzi, Robert P. Mecham, Barry Starcher, George Tellides, Jay D. Humphrey, Frank J. Giordano, Laura E. Niklason, William C. Sessa	84
19	Tissue-Engineered Lungs for in Vivo Implantation breakdown → 2010 ·Science ·Thomas Petersen, Elizabeth A. Calle, Liping Zhao, Eun Jung Lee, Liqiong Gui, Micha Sam Brickman Raredon, (unknown), Tai Yi, Zhen W. Zhuang, Christopher K. Breuer, Erica L. Herzog, Laura E. Niklason	892
20	Porcine Endothelial Cells Cocultured with Smooth Muscle Cells Became Procoagulant In Vitro 2010 ·Tissue Engineering Part A ·Zhengyu Pang, Laura E. Niklason, George A. Truskey	5

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