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Nandan Nerurkar

Graduate Student in Mechanical Engineering University of Pennsylvania

HOMETOWN
Edmond, OK

EDUCATION
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering 2005, Washington University, St. Louis
B.S. in Biological Engineering 2003, University of Maryland, College Park

AREAS OF SPECIAL INTERESTS
Mechanics and engineering of fiber-reinforced soft tissues, biomechanics of development, growth and remodeling.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Nerurkar NL, Mauck RL, Elliott DM. Integrating theoretical and experimental methods for functional tissue engineering of the annulus fibrosus, in press. 2008 ISSLS Prize Paper.
2. Ramasubramanian A, Nerurkar NL, Achtien KH, Filas BA, Voronov DA, Taber LA. "On the modeling morphogenesis of the looping heart following mechanical perturbation." Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (in review)
3. Nerurkar NL, Elliott DM, Mauck RL. Mechanics of oriented elecctrospun nanofibrous scaffolds for annulus fibrosus tissue engineering. Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 25(8), 2007.
4. Nerurkar, NL, Ramasubramanian, A, and LA Taber. Morphogenetic Adaptation of the Looping Embryonic Heart to Altered Mechanical Loads. Developmental Dynamics, 235(7), 2006.
5. Wagenseil JE, Nerurkar NL, Knutsen RH, Okamoto RJ, Li DY, and RP Mecham. Effects of elastin haploinsufficiency on the mechanical behavior of mouse arteries. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 289 (3), 2005.
6. Anderson, GP and NL Nerurkar. Improved fluoroimmunoassays using the dye Alexa Fluor 647 with the RAPTOR, a fiber optic biosensor. Journal Of Immuunological Methods, 271 (1-2), 2002.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

1. Baker BM, Nerurkar NL, Burdick JA, Elliott DM, Mauck RL. "Fabrication and Modeling of an Electrospun Tri-Polymer Composite for the Engineering of Fibrous Tissues," Proceedings of ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Marco Island, FL, June 25-29, submitted.
2. Nerurkar NL, Nguyen AM, Mauck RL, Elliott DM. Functional evolution of engineered annulus fibrosus using constitutive modeling. 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2-5, 2008.
3. Nerurkar NL, Orlansky AS, Sen S, Elliott DM, Mauck RL. Multiscale tissue engineering of the intervertebral disc. 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2-5, 2008.
4. Lake SP, Nerurkar NL, Mauck RL, Kaldowec JA, Elliott DM, Soslowsky LJ. Development of a Nonlinear Anisotropic Fiber Dispersion Model to Quantify and Predict Mechanics of Normal and Injured Tendon. 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Francisco, CA, March 2-5, 2008.
5. Nerurkar NL, Elliott DM, Mauck RL. Architecture of nanofibrous scaffolds influences fibrocatilagenous gene expression of annulus fibrosus and mesenchymal stem cells. 6th Combined meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 20-24, 2007
6. Nerurkar NL, Nguyen AM, Tsing P, Mauck RL, Elliott DM. A hyperelastic fiber-reinforced continuum model to assay functional evolution of tissue engineered annulus fibrosus. 6th Combined meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 20-24, 2007
7. Taber LA, Nerurkar NL, Ramasubramanian A. Finite element modeling of the looping embryonic heart including mechanical feedback. 9th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, CA, July 22-26, 2007.
8. Ramasubramanian A, Nerurkar NL, Taber LA. Role of mechanical feedback in restoration of normal cardiac c-looping following perturbed loading. 2007 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Keystone, CO, June 20-24
9. Nerurkar NL, Nguyen AM, Elliott DM, Mauck RL. Annulus Fibrosus tissue engineering with aligned electrospun nanofibrous scaffolds. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, San Diego, CA, February 11-14, 2007
10. Nerurkar NL, Baker BM, Elliott DM, Mauck RL. Engineering of fiber- reinforced tissues with anisotropic biodegradable nanofibrous scaffolds. 2006 IEEE-EMBS Meeting, New York, NY, Aug 30-Sept 3
11. Nerurkar NL, Ramasubramanian A, Taber LA. Morphogenetic adaptation of the embryonic heart to perturbed loading. 2006 ASME Summer Bioengineering Conference, Amelia Island, FL, June 21-25