Syam Nukavarapu

Department Head

Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Education

• Postdoc, University of Virginia
• Postdoc, Lehigh University
• Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, 1998 – 2003

Research Interests

• Biomaterials
• Engineered Matrices
• Bioreactor Technologies
• Tissue Engineering

Awards and Honors

• 2019  Tissue Engineering Science and Technology Award, NSF
• 2015  Junior Investigator Award, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
• 2014  Mentorship Award, University of Connecticut
• 2013  Young Researcher Award, AO Foundation
• 2009 Campus Incentive Award, University of Connecticut

Publications

Xin X, Jiang X, Wang L, Mikael P, McCarthy MB, Chen L, Mazzocca AD, Nukavarapu SP, Lichtler AC, Rowe DW. Histological Criteria that Distinguish Human and Mouse Bone Formed Within a Mouse Skeletal Repair Defect. J Histochem Cytochem. 2019:67, 401-417. (Featured on cover).

Suvarnapathaki S, Nguyen MA, Wu X, Nukavarapu SP and Camci-Unal G. Synthesis and characterization of photocrosslinkable hydrogels from bovine skin gelatin, RSC Advances, 2019, 9 (23), 13016-13025.

Golebiowska AG, Kim HS, Camci-Unal G, Nukavarapu, SP. Integration of Technologies for Bone Tissue Engineering. Encyclopedia of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. 2019. 243-259.

Ming-Yeah H and Nukavarapu SP. Scaffolds for Cartilage Tissue Engineering. Handbook of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds: Volume 1, 211-244, (2019).

Mikael PE, Golebiowska AA, Xin X, Rowe DW, Nukavarapu SP. Evaluation of an Engineered Hybrid Matrix for Bone Regeneration via Endochondral Ossification. Ann Biomed Eng., 2020, 48, 992-1005.

Harmon MD, Ramos DM, Duraisamy N, Bordett R, Rudraiah S, Nukavarapu SP, Moss I and Kumbar SG. Growing a Backbone–Functional Biomaterials and Structures for Intervertebral Disc (IVD) Repair and Regeneration: Challenges, Innovations, and Future Directions, Biomaterials Science, 2020.