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Eben Alsberg, PhD

Richard and Loan Hill Chair, UIC Distinguished Professor

Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine, and Orthopaedic Surgery
Fellow of NAI, TERM, IAMBE, CRS, AIMBE and BMES

Contact

Building & Room:

7005 COMRB

Address:

909 South Wolcott Avenue, MC 563, Chicago, IL 60612

Email:

ealsberg@uic.edu

About

Zoom Link: https://uic.zoom.us/my/alsberg

 

Office Location: 7005 COMRB

Lab Location: 7120 COMRB

Lab Website: http://alsberg.lab.uic.edu

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=thaz6kcAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interests: Prof. Alsberg’s research is focused on innovative biomaterials, microenvironments and bioactive factor delivery vehicles for functional tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and disease therapeutics; developmental engineering; control of stem cell fate decision; precise temporal and spatial presentation of signals to regulate cell function; 4D systems; biofabrication and bioprinting; mechanotransduction and the influence of mechanics on cell behavior and tissue formation; organoids and organogenesis; therapeutic angiogenesis; and cell-cell interactions.

Selected Publications

  1. Mierswa SC , Wheeler EE, Apsey AN, Jeon O, Alsberg E, Leach KL. Mesenchymal stromal cell chondrogenic differentiation induced by continuous stiffness gradient in photocrosslinkable hydrogels. Biomedical Materials Research-A (in press 2025).
  2. Jeon O, Park Hyoeun, Leach KL, Alsberg E. Biofabrication of engineered tissues by 3D bioprinting of tissue specific high cell-density bioinks. Materials Today (in press 2025).
  3. Lee SJ, Jeon O, Lee YB, Alt DS, Ding A, Tang R, Alsberg E. In situ cell condensation-based cartilage tissue engineering via immediately implantable high-density stem cell core and rapidly degradable shell microgels. Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials (in press 2025).
  4. Ding A, Tang F, Alsberg E. The Emerging 4D Printing of Shape-Memory Thermomorphs for Self-Adaptative Biomedical Implants. Advanced Functional Materials (in press 2025).
  5. Lang A, Eastburn E, Younesi M, Nijsure M, Siciliano C, Pranatharthi-Haran A, Panebianco C, Seidl E, Tang R, Alsberg E, Willett N, Gottardi R, Huh D, Boerckel J. CYR61 delivery promotes angiogenesis during bone fracture repair. npj Regenerative Medicine (in press 2025).
  6. Ding A, Tang F, Alsberg E. 4D printing: A comprehensive review of technologies, materials, stimuli, design, and emerging applications. Chemical Reviews (in press 2025).
  7. Milla AEF, DeMaria W, Wells D, Jeon O, Alsberg E, Rolle M. Vascular tissues bioprinted with smooth muscle cell-only bioinks in support baths mimic features of native coronary arteries. Biofabrication, 16(4), 2024.
  8. Tuftee C, Alsberg E, Ozbolat IT, Rizwan Emerging granular hydrogel bioinks to improve biological function in bioprinted constructs. Trends in Biotechnology, 42(3): 339-352, 2024.
  9. Kang S-Y, Kimura M, Shrestha S, Lewis P, Lee S, Cai Y, Joshi P, Acharya P, Liu J, Yang Y, Sanchez JG, Ayyagari S, Alsberg E, Wells JM, Takebe T, Lee M-Y. A Pillar and Perfusion Plate Platform for Robust Human Organoid Culture and Analysis. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 13(21): e2302502, 2024.
  10. Hsu Y-Y, Hwang S-W, Chen SJ, Alsberg E, Liu AP. Development of mechanosensitive synthetic cells for biomedical applications. SLAS Technology, 29(2): 100095, 2024.

Education

Postdoc, Harvard Medical School, 2005
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2002
M.S.E., Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1998
M.S.E., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 1998
B.S.E., Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 1994
B.S.E., Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, 1994