NU scientists create tiny blood-vessel builders

Chicago Tribune/News: Chicagoland
by Kelly April
August 17th, 2011

Imagine splitting a human hair 100,000 times. Each split is a single nanometer in diameter, the size of a nanostructure.

These tiny items are being used by scientists and doctors at Northwestern University to do something big: build new blood vessels.

Materials science: Noodly appendages

Nature/Research Highlights
by E. H.
June 16, 2010

Chemists have cooked up bundles of nanometre-scale fibres that not only stretch and bend, but can be packed alongside cells.

Growing Cartilage -- No Easy Task

Northwestern University, News Center
by Megan Fellman
February 1, 2010

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage in vivo and without the use of expensive growth factors....

“Supramolecular Nanostructures that Mimic VEGF as a strategy for Ischemic Tissue Repair”

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108(33), (2011) 13438-13443.

M. J. Webber
J. Tongers
C. J. Newcomb
K-T. Marquardt
J. Bauersachs
D. W. Losordo
S. I. Stupp

“A Self-Assembly Pathway to Aligned Monodomain Gels”

Nature Materials 9(7), (2010)
594-601.

S. Zhang
M. A. Greenfield
A. Mata
L. C. Palmer
R. Bitton
J. R. Mantei
M. O. de la Cruz
S. I. Stupp

Group Meetings

1/28/12 Saturday @ 11:00am - Cook 2058 - Selected Individuals

2/11/12 Saturday @ 11:00am - Cook 2058 - Yuri Velichko and Roman Kazantsev

2/25/12 Saturday @ 11:00am - Cook 2058 - Jason Mantei and Alok Tayi

3/10/12 Saturday @ 11:00am - Cook 2058 - Matthew Webber

3/24/12 Saturday @ 11:00am - Cook 2058 - Seth Lee and Amparo Ruiz-Carretero

3/31/12 Saturday @ 11:00am - Cook 2058 - Tyson Moyer and Shantanu Sur

The Stupp Group 2011

The Stupp Laboratory
Cook Hall 1127
2220 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-3108

(847) 491-3002 phone
(847) 491-3010 facsimile

Samuel I. Stupp
Board of Trustees Professor of
Materials Science, Chemistry, & Medicine
Director, Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine

Sharon Jacknow
Research Administrator

Jill Johnson
Assistant to Professor Stupp
Chicago Campus

Laura Fields
Assistant to Professor Stupp
Evanston Campus

“Self-Assembling peptide scaffolds for Regenerative Medicine”
Matson, J.; Stupp, S. I. Chemical Communications 48(1), (2012) 26-33.

“A hybrid nanofiber matrix to control the survival and maturation of brain neurons”
Sur, S.; Pashuck, E. T.; Guler, M. O.; Ito, M.; Stupp, S. I.; Launey, T. Biomaterials 33(2), (2012) 545-555.

“Electric Field Controlled Self-Assembly of Hierarchically Ordered Membranes”
Velichko, Y. S.; Mantei, J. R.; Bitton, R.; Carvajal, D.; Shull, K. R.; Stupp, S. I. Advanced Functional Materials 22(2), (2012) 369-377.

Mata, A.; Palmer, L.; Tejeda-Montes, E.; Stupp, S. I. “Design of Biomolecules for Nanoengineered Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine” Nanotechnology in Regenerative Medicine: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology. Eds. Melba Navarro and Josep A. Planell. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC: Germany. 2012, Vol 811, 39-49.

“Anti-Tumor Activity of Peptide Amphiphile Nanofiber-Encapsulated Camptothecin”
Soukasene, S.; Toft, D.; Moyer, T.; Lu, H.; Lee, H-K.; Standley, S.; Cryns, V.; Stupp, S. I. ACS Nano 5(11), (2011) 9113-9121.

“Self-Assembly and Orientation of Hydrogen-Bonded Oligothiophene Polymorphs at Liquid-Membrane-Liquid Interfaces”
Tevis, I. D.; Palmer, L. C.; Herman, D. J.; Murray, I. P.; Stone, D. A.; Stupp, S. I. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133(41), (2011) 16486-16494.