Publications

Roche, Ellen T. Encapsulating a leukemia vaccine, Science Translational Medicine  28 Oct 2020: Vol. 12, Issue 567, eabf2642 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abf2642 Link

Varela CE, Fan Y, Roche ET. Optimizing Epicardial restraint and reinforcement following myocardial infarction: Moving towards localized, biomimetic, and multitherapeutic options. Biomimetics. 2019 Mar;4(1):7. DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics4010007

Yuk H*, Varela CE*, Nabzdyk CS, Mao X, Padera RF, Roche ET, Zhao X. Dry double-sided tape for adhesion of wet tissues and devices. Nature. 2019 Nov;575(7781):169-74. DOI: /10.1038/s41586-019-1710-5 (*co-first authors).

Dolan EB, Varela CE, Mendez K, Whyte W, Levey RE, Robinson ST, Maye E, O’Dwyer J, Beatty R, Rothman A, Fan Y. An actuatable soft reservoir modulates host foreign body response. Science Robotics. 2019 Aug 28;4(33):eaax7043. DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aax7043

Cobi AC, Gray L, Mittmann ER, Link SB, Hanumara NC, Lyatskaya Y, Roche E, Slocum AH, Zygmanski P. Design of a Reconfigurable Quality Assurance Phantom for Verifying the Spatial Accuracy of Radiosurgery Treatments for Multiple Brain Metastases. Journal of Medical Devices. 2019 Dec 1;13(4). DOI: 10.1115/1.4044402

Fan Y, Ronan W, Teh I, Schneider JE, Varela CE, Whyte W, McHugh P, Leen S, Roche E. A comparison of two quasi‐static computational models for assessment of intra‐myocardial injection as a therapeutic strategy for heart failure. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering. 2019 Sep;35(9):e3213. DOI: 10.1002/cnm.3213

Roche ET. Implanted device enables responsive bladder control. Nature. 2019 Jan 1;565(7737):298-. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-018-07811-1

Weafer FM, Duffy S, Machado I, Gunning G, Mordasini P, Roche E, McHugh PE, Gilvarry M. Characterization of strut indentation during mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke clot analogs. Journal of neurointerventional surgery. 2019 Sep 1;11(9):891-7. DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2018-014601

*Horvath MA, *Varela CE, *Dolan EB, Whyte W, Monahan DS, Payne CJ, Wamala IA, Vasilyev NV, Pigula FA, Mooney DJ, Walsh CJ, Roche ET. Towards alternative approaches for coupling of a soft robotic sleeve to the heart. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2018 Oct 15;46(10):1534-47. DOI: 10.1007/s10439-018-2046-2 (*co-first authors)

Whyte W*, Roche ET*, Varela CE, Mendez K, Islam S, O’Neill H, Weafer F, Shirazi RN, Weaver JC, Vasilyev NV, McHugh PE, Murphy B, Duffy GP, Walsh CJ**, Mooney DJ**. Sustained release of targeted cardiac therapy with a replenishable implanted epicardial reservoir. Nature biomedical engineering. 2018 Jun;2(6):416. DOI: 10.1038/s41551-018-0247-5. (*co-first authors, **co-senior authors)

Horvath MA, Wamala I, Rytkin E, Doyle E, Payne CJ, Thalhofer T, Berra I, Solovyeva A, Saeed M, Hendren S, Roche ET. An intracardiac soft robotic device for augmentation of blood ejection from the failing right ventricle. Annals of biomedical engineering. 2017 Sep 1;45(9):2222-33. DOI: 10.1007/s10439-017-1855-z

Payne CJ, Wamala I, Abah C, Thalhofer T, Saeed M, Bautista-Salinas D, Horvath MA, Vasilyev NV, Roche ET, Pigula FA, Walsh CJ. An implantable extracardiac soft robotic device for the failing heart: mechanical coupling and synchronization. Soft robotics. 2017 Sep 1;4(3):241-50. DOI: 10.1089/soro.2016.0076

Wamala I, Roche ET, Pigula FA. The use of soft robotics in cardiovascular therapy. Expert review of cardiovascular therapy. 2017 Oct 3;15(10):767-74. DOI: 10.1080/14779072.2017.1366313

O’Neill HS, Gallagher LB, O’Sullivan J, Whyte W, Curley C, Dolan E, Hameed A, O’Dwyer J, Payne C, O’Reilly D, Ruiz‐Hernandez E. Biomaterial‐enhanced cell and drug delivery: lessons learned in the cardiac field and future perspectives. Advanced materials. 2016 Jul;28(27):5648-61. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201505349

Cezar CA, Roche ET, Vandenburgh HH, Duda GN, Walsh CJ, Mooney DJ. Biologic-free mechanically induced muscle regeneration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016 Feb 9;113(6):1534-9. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1517517113

Hastings CL, Roche ET, Ruiz-Hernandez E, Schenke-Layland K, Walsh CJ, Duffy GP. Drug and cell delivery for cardiac regeneration. Advanced drug delivery reviews. 2015 Apr 1;84:85-106. DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2014.08.006