Publications

1- Mirani B, Mathew SO, Latifi N, Labrosse MR, Amsden BG, Simmons CA. Programmable melt electrowriting to engineer soft connective tissues with prescribed, biomimetic biaxial mechanical properties. Advanced Functional Materials. 2024. | 34(1), pp 2302786, doi: 10.1002/adfm.202302786. Inside front cover illustration.

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2- Siqueira NM, Chung S, Shrestha S, Zhong A, Caruso L, Mirani B, Mirzaei Z, Simmons CA, Santerre JP. Bioinspired oligo-urethane nanoparticles for delivering exogenous C-type natriuretic peptide: synthetic biomaterial nanocarrier complexes and their interactions with cardiac myofibroblasts. Biomacromolecules. 2023 | 24(7), pp 3149–3158,  doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.3c00210.

 

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3- Mirani B, Hadisi Z, Pagan E, Dabiri SMH, VanRijt A, Almutairi L, Noshadi I, Armstrong D, Akbari M. Smart dual-sensor wound dressing for monitoring cutaneous wounds. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 2023 | 12(18), pp 2203233, doi: 10.1002/adhm.202203233.

 

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4- Parvin Nejad S, Lecce M, Mirani B, Siqueira NM, Mirzaei Z, Santerre JP, Davies JE, Simmons CA, Serum- and xeno-free culture of human umbilical cord perivascular cells for pediatric heart valve tissue engineering. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 2023 | 14(96), pp 1-16 , doi: 10.1186/s13287-023-03318-3.

 

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5- Sebastian JA, Strohm EM, Chérin E, Mirani B, Démoré C, Kolios MC, Simmons CA. High-frequency quantitative ultrasound for the assessment of the acoustic properties of engineered tissues in vitro. Acta Biomaterialia. 2022 | 157, pp 288-296, doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2022.12.014.

 

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6- Mirani B*, Parvin Nejad S*, Simmons CA. Recent progress toward clinical translation of tissue-engineered heart valves. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2021 | 37(7), pp 1064-1077, doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2021.03.022. *Equal contribution.

 

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7- Mirani B, Stefanek E, Godau B, Dabiri SMH, Akbari M. Microfluidic 3D printing of a photocrosslinkable bioink using insights from computational modeling. ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. 2021 | 7(7), pp 3269-3280, doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00084.

 

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8- Mirani B, Pagan E, Shojaei S, Dabiri SMH, Savoji H, Mehrali M, Sam M, Alsaif J, Bhiladvala R, Dolatshahi-Pirouz A, Radisic M, Akbari M. A facile method for fabrication of meter-long multifunctional hydrogel fibers with controllable biophysical and biochemical features. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2020 | 12(8), pp 9080-9089, doi: 10.1021/acsami.9b23063.

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9- Hosseinzadeh H*, Mirani B*, Pagan E, Mirzaghaei S, Nasimian A, Kawalec P, Rosa S, Hamdi D, Fernandez N, Toyota B, Gordon J, Ghavami S, Akbari M. A drug-eluting 3D-printed mesh (GlioMesh) for management of glioblastoma. Advanced Therapeutics. 2019 | 2(11), pp 1970023, doi: 10.1002/adtp.201970023. *Equal contribution. Front cover illustration.

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10- Mirani B, Pagan E, Shojaei S, Duchscherer J, Toyota B, Ghavami S, Akbari M. A 3D-bioprinted hydrogels mesh loaded with all-trans retinoic acid for treatment of glioblastoma. European Journal of Pharmacology. 2019 | 854, pp 201-212, doi: 10.1016/J.EJPHAR.2019.04.007.

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11- Mehrali M, Bagherifard S, Akbari M, Thakur A, Mirani B, Mehrali M, Hasany M, Orive G, Das P, Emneus J, Andresen T, Dolatshahi-Pirouz A. Blending electronics with the human body: a pathway toward a cybernetic future. Advanced Science. 2018 | 5(10), pp 1700931 (1-39), doi: 10.1002/advs.201700931. Inside front cover illustration.

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12- Mirani B, Pagan E, Currie B, Siddiqui M, Hosseinzadeh H, Mostafalu P, Zhang Y, Ghahary A, Akbari M. An advanced multifunctional hydrogel-based dressing for wound monitoring and drug delivery. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 2017 | 6(19), pp 1700718. doi: 10.1002/adhm.201700718. Back cover illustration.

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13- Memic A, Navaei A, Mirani B, Cordova JAV, Aldhahri M, Dolatshahi-Pirouz A, Akbari M, Nikkhah M. Bioprinting technologies for disease modeling. Biotechnology Letters. 2017 | 39(9), pp 1279–1290. doi: 10.1007/s10529-017-2360-z.

 

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14- Pedde RD*, Mirani B*, Navaei A, Styan T, Wong S, Mehrali M, Thakur A, Mohtaram NK, Bayati A, Dolatshahi-Pirouz A, Nikkhah M, Willerth SM, Akbari M. Emerging biofabrication strategies for engineering complex tissue constructs. Advanced Materials. 2016 | 29(19), pp 1606061. doi: 10.1002/adma.201606061. *Equal contribution.