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#Corresponding author
Fabyan WB*, Fortin CL*, Goune DL, Kenerson HL, Simmonds Bohorquez SP, Liu JTC, Yeh MM, Carr RM, Yeung RSW, Stevens KR#. 3D reconstruction of human liver tissue at cellular resolution. Science Advances. 2026 Feb 20; 12(8): eadz2299.
Prado O*, Malkani S*, Johansson F, Zhang F, Fasuyi A, Saxton SH, Kinstlinger IS, Miller JS, Stevens KR#. Topological tracks patterned via 3D printing vascularize murine organ-scale constructs. Cell Biomaterials. 2026 Feb; 12: 100369.
Gregorio NE, Zhang F, Suita Y, Ang LS, Prado O, Fasuyi A, Olson JM, Stevens KR, DeForest CA#. PhoCoil: A photodegradable and injectable single-component recombinant protein hydrogel for minimally invasive delivery and degradation. Science Advances. 2025 Aug 29; 11(35): eadx3472.
O'Connor CE*, Zhang F*, Neufeld A, Prado O, Simmonds SP, Fortin CL, Johansson F, Mene J, Saxton SH, Kopyeva I, Gregorio NE, James Z, DeForest CA, Wayne EC, Witten DM, Stevens KR#. Bioprinted platform for parallelized screening of engineered microtissues in vivo. Cell Stem Cell. 2025 May; 32(5): 838-853.e6.
Malkani S*, Prado O*, Stevens KR#. Sacrificial Templating for Accelerating Clinical Translation of Engineered Organs. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. 2025 Jan 13; 11(1): 1–12.
Bennett JI, Boit MO, Gregorio NE, Zhang F, Kibler RD, Hoye JW, Prado O, Rapp PB, Murry CE, Stevens KR, DeForest CA#. Genetically Encoded XTEN-based Hydrogels with Tunable Viscoelasticity and Biodegradability for Injectable Cell Therapies. Advanced Science. 2024 Jun; 11(24): e2301708.
Stevens KR#, Desai TA#. Centering Margins in Organ Assembly. Advanced Biology. 2023 May; 7(5): e2300146.
Fortin CL*, McCray TN*, Saxton SH, Johansson F, Andino CB, Mene J, Wang Y, Stevens KR#. Temporal Dynamics of Metabolic Acquisition in Grafted Engineered Human Liver Tissue. Advanced Biology. 2023 May; 7(5): e2200208.
Brady EL*, Prado O*, Johansson F, Mitchell SN, Martinson AM, Karbassi E, Reinecke H, Murry CE, Davis J, Stevens KR#. Engineered tissue vascularization and engraftment depends on host model. Scientific Reports. 2023 Feb 3; 13: 1973.
O'Connor C*, Brady E*, Zheng Y, Moore E, Stevens KR#. Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks. Nat Rev Mater. 2022 May 31; 1-15.
McCray T, Smith Q, Stevens KR#. Can't touch this: Stromal-mediated ductal proliferation. Cell Stem Cell. 2021 Nov 4; 28(11): 1885-1887.
Srivatsan SR*, Regier MC*, Barkan E, Packer JS, Grosjean P, Saxton S, Ladd JJ, Spielmann M, Lampe PD, Shendure J#, Stevens KR#, Trapnell C#. Embryo-scale, single-cell spatial transcriptomics. Science. 2021 Jul 2; 373(6550): 111-117.
Desai T#, Eniola-Adefeso O#, Stevens KR#, Vazquez M#, Imoukhuede PI#. Perspectives on Disparities in Scientific Visibility. Nat Rev Mater. 2021 Jun 3; 6: 556-559.
Stevens KR, Masters KS, Imoukhuede PI, Haynes KA, Setton LA, Cosgriff-Hernandez E, Lediju Bell MA, Rangamani P, Sakiyama-Elbert SE, Finley SD, Willits RK, Koppes AN, Chesler NC, Christman KL, Allen JB, Wong JY, El-Samad H, Desai TA, Eniola-Adefeso O#. Fund Black scientists. Cell. 2021 Feb 4; 184(3): 561-565.
Corbett DC, Fabyan WB, Grigoryan B, O'Connor CE, Johansson F, Batalov I, Regier MC, DeForest CA, Miller JS, Stevens KR#. Thermofluidic heat exchangers for actuation of transcription in artificial tissues. Science Advances. 2020 Sep 30; 6(40).
El-Nachef D, Shi K, Beussman KM, Martinez R, Regier MC, Everett GW, Murry CE, Stevens KR, Young JE, Sniadecki NJ, Davis J#. A Rainbow reporter tracks single cells and reveals heterogeneous cellular dynamics among pluripotent stem cells and their differentiated derivatives. Stem Cell Reports. 2020 Jul 14; 15(1): 226-241.
Kinstlinger IS, Saxton SH, Calderon GA, Vasquez Ruiz K, Yalacki DR, Deme PR, Rosenkrantz JE, Louis-Rosenberg JD, Johansson F, Janson KD, Sazer DW, Panchavati SS, Bissig KD, Stevens KR, Miller JS#. Generation of model tissues with dendritic vascular networks via sacrificial laser-sintered carbohydrate templates. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 2020 Sep; 4(9): 916-932.
Mandrycky CJ*, Williams NP*, Batalov I, El-Nachef D, de Bakker BS, Davis J, Kim DH, DeForest CA, Zheng Y, Stevens KR, Sniadecki NJ#. Engineering Heart Morphogenesis. Trends in Biotechnology. 2020 Aug; 38(8): 835-845.
Brady E, Stevens KR#. Guided vascularization in the rat heart leads to transient vessel patterning. APL Bioengineering. 2020 Mar 5; 4(1): 016105.
Kain HS, Arang N, Glennon EK, Douglass AN, Fortin CL, Vijayan K, Dudgeon D, Zuck M, Johnson JS, Aderem A, Stevens KR, Kaushansky A#. Liver stage malaria infection is controlled by host regulators of lipid peroxidation. Cell Death and Differentiation. 2020 Jan; 27(1): 44-54.
Corbett DC, Olszewski E, Stevens KR#. A FRESH take on resolution in 3D bioprinting. Trends in Biotechnology. 2019 Nov; 37(11): 1153-1155.
Brooks EA, Gencoglu MF, Corbett DC, Stevens KR, Peyton SR#. An Omentum-inspired 3D PEG Hydrogel for Identifying ECM-drivers of Drug Resistant Ovarian Cancer. APL Bioengineering. 2019 Jun 26; 3(2): 026106.
Regier MC, Olszewski E, Carter C, Aitchison JD, Kaushansky A, Davis J, Berthier E, Beebe DJ, Stevens KR#. Spatial presentation of biological molecules to cells by localized diffusive transfer. Lab on a Chip. 2019 Jun 11; 19(12): 2114-2126.
Grigoryan B*, Paulsen SJ*, Corbett DC*, Sazer DW, Fortin CL, Zaita AJ, Greenfield PT, Calafat NJ, Gounley JP, Ta AH, Johansson F, Randles A, Rosenkrantz JE, Louis-Rosenberg JD, Galie PA, Stevens KR#, Miller JS#. Functional intravascular topologies and multivascular networks within biocompatible hydrogels. Science. 2019 May 3; 364(6439): 458-464 (Cover).
Regier MC, Tokar JJ, Warrick JW, Pabon L, Berthier E, Beebe DJ, Stevens KR#. User-defined morphogen patterning for directing human cell fate stratification. Scientific Reports. 2019; 9: 6433.
Marcu R, Choi YJ, Xue J, Fortin CL, Wang Y, Nagao R, Xu J, MacDonald J, Bammler T, Murry CE, Muczynski K, Stevens KR, Himmelfarb J, Schwartz SM, Zheng Y#. Human Organ-specific Endothelial Cell Heterogeneity. iScience. 2018 May 8.
Stevens KR, Murry CE#. Human pluripotent stem cell-derived engineered tissues: Clinical considerations. Cell Stem Cell. 2018 Mar 1; 22(3): 294-297.
Stevens KR, Scull MA, Chaturvedi RR, Fortin CL, Xiao JW, Ramanan V, Fung C, de Jong YP, Chen CS, Rice CM, Bhatia SN#. In situ expansion of engineered human liver tissue. Science Translational Medicine. 2017 Jul 19.
Gencoglu MF, Barney LE, Hall CL, Brooks EA, Schwartz AD, Corbett DC, Stevens KR, Peyton SR#. Comparative study of multicellular tumor spheroid formation methods and implications for drug screening assays. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering. DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00069.
Ng S, March S, Galstian A, Gural N, Stevens KR, Mota MM, Bhatia SN#. Towards a Humanized Mouse Model of Liver Stage Malaria Using Ectopic Artificial Livers. Scientific Reports. 2017 Mar 31; 7: 45424.
Dudani JS, Jain PK, Kwong GA, Stevens KR, Bhatia SN#. Photo activated spatiotemporally-responsive nano sensors of in vivo protease activity. ACS Nano. 2015 Dec 22; 9(12): 11708-17.
Chaturvedi R, Stevens KR, Solorzano R, Schwartz RE, Eyckmans J, Baranski J, Stapleton S, Bhatia SN, Chen CS#. Patterning vascular networks in vivo for tissue engineering applications. Tissue Engineering Part C. 2014.
Li CY, Stevens KR, Schwartz RE, Alejandro BS, Huang JH, Bhatia SN#. Micropatterned cell-cell interactions enable functional encapsulation of primary hepatocytes in hydrogel microtissues. Tissue Engineering Part A. 2014 Feb 5.
Stevens KR, Ungrin MD, Schwartz RE, Ng S, Carvalho B, Christine KS, Chaturvedi R, Li CY, Zandstra PW, Chen CS, Bhatia SN#. InVERT molding for scalable control of tissue microarchitecture. Nature Communications. 2013; 4: 1847. Featured Image.
Baranski JD*, Chaturvedi RR*, Stevens KR*, Carvalho B, Solorzano RD, Yang MT, Miller JS, Bhatia SN#, Chen CS. Geometric control of vascular networks to enhance engineered tissue function. PNAS. 2013 May 7; 110(19): 7586-91.
Miller JS, Stevens KR, Yang MT, Baker BM, Nguyen DH, Cohen DM, Toro E, Chen AA, Galie PA, Yu X, Chaturvedi R, Bhatia SN, Chen CS#. Rapid casting of patterned vascular networks for perfusable engineered three-dimensional tissues. Nature Materials. 2012; 11(9): 768-74.
Stevens KR, Kreutziger KL, Dupras SK, Korte FS, Regnier M, Muskheli V, Nourse MB, Bendixen K, Reinecke H, Murry CE#. Physiological Function and Transplantation of Scaffold-free and Vascularized Human Cardiac Muscle Tissue. PNAS. 2009; 106(39): 16568-73.
Stevens KR, Pabon LM, Muskheli V, Murry CE#. Scaffold-free human cardiac tissue patch created from embryonic stem cells. Tissue Engineering Part A. 2009; 15(6): 1211-22.
Stevens KR*, Rolle MW*, Minami E, Ueno S, Nourse MB, Virag JI, Reinecke H, Murry CE#. Chemical Dimerization of FGFR-1 Induces Myoblast Proliferation, Increases Intracardiac Graft Size, and Reduces Ventricular Dilation in Infarcted Hearts. Human Gene Therapy. 2007; 18(5): 401-12. Cover.
Kao WJ, Burmania J, Li J, Einerson N, Witte R, Stevens K, Nelson D, Martinez-Diaz G#. Multifunctional protein based matrix for drug delivery and wound management. Materials Science Forum. 2003; 426-432: 3145-3150.
Burmania JA, Stevens KR, Kao WJ#. Cell interaction with protein-loaded interpenetrating networks containing modified gelatin and poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate. Biomaterials. 2003; 24(22): 3921-30.
Einerson NJ, Stevens KR, Kao WJ#. Synthesis and physiochemical analysis of gelatin-based hydrogels for drug carrier matrices. Biomaterials. 2003; 24(3): 509-23.
Laeseke PF, Winter III TC, Davis CL, Stevens KR, Fronczak FJ, Webster JG, Lee Jr. FT#. Postbiopsy bleeding in a porcine model: reduction with radio-frequency ablation—preliminary results. Radiology. 2003; 227(2): 493-9.
Stevens KR, Einerson NJ, Burmania JA, Kao WJ#. In vivo biocompatibility of gelatin-based hydrogels and interpenetrating networks for drug delivery. Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymers Edition. 2002; 13(12): 1353-66.
Kao WJ, Liu Y, Gundloori R, Li J, Lee D, Einerson N, Burmania J, Stevens K#. Engineering endogenous inflammatory cells as delivery vehicles. Journal of Controlled Release. 2002; 78: 219-233.