Catia Verbeke

Catia Verbeke

Postdoctoral Fellow
Catia  Verbeke
Education
     Ph.D. Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 2014
     M.S. Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 2008
     B.S. Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006

 
 
Research Focus:
     Tolerogenic immunotherapy for the treatment of autoimmune diseases
     Cancer immunotherapy


 
 
Publications:
  1. Verbeke CS, Gordo S, Schubert D, Lewin SA, Desai RM, Dobbins J, Wucherpfennig K, Mooney DJ. Multi-component injectable hydrogels delivering peptide antigens induce antigen-specific tolerance. [In preparation].
  2. Ariyachet C, Tovaglieri A, Xiang G, Shah MS, Richmond CA, Verbeke CS, Brown J, Shivdasani R, Breault DT, Mahony S, Mooney DJ, Zhou Q. Engineered stomach tissues as a renewable source of functional beta-cells for blood glucose regulation. Cell Stem Cell [In press].
  3. Verbeke CS, Mooney DJ. Injectable, pore-forming hydrogels for in vivo enrichment of immature dendritic cells. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 2015 [Epub ahead of print].
  4. Huebsch N, Lippens E, Lee K, Mehta M, Koshy S, Darnell M, Desai R, Madl CM, Xu M, Zhao X, Chaudhuri O, Verbeke CS, Kim WS, Alim K, Mammoto A, Ingber DE, Duda GN, Mooney DJ. Matrix Elasticity of Void-Forming Hydrogels Controls Transplanted Stem-Cell Mediated Bone Formation. Nature Materials. 2015 [Epub ahead of print].
  5. Bencherif SA, Sands RW, Ali OA, Li WA, Lewin SA, Braschler TM, Shih TY, Verbeke CS, Bhatta D, Dranoff G, Mooney DJ. Injectable Cryogel-based Whole Cell Cancer Vaccines. Nature Communications. 2015 Aug 12;6:755.
  6. Kim J, Li WA, Choi Y, Lewin SA, Verbeke CS, Dranoff G, Mooney DJ. Injectable, spontaneously assembling, inorganic scaffolds modulate immune cells in vivo and increase vaccine efficacy. Nature Biotechnology. 2015 Jan;33(1):64-72.
  7. Chaudhuri O, Koshy ST, Branco da Cunha C, Shin JW, Verbeke CS, Allison KH, Mooney DJ. Extracellular matrix stiffness and composition together regulate malignancy of the mammary epithelium. Nature Materials. 2014 Oct;13(10):970-8.
  8. Ali OA, Verbeke C, Johnson C, Sands W, Lewin SA, White D, Doherty E, Dranoff G, Mooney DJ. Identification of immune factors regulating anti-tumor immunity using polymeric vaccines with multiple adjuvants. Cancer Res. 2014 Mar 15.
  9. Bencherif SA, Sands RW, Bhatta D, Arany P, Verbeke CS, Edwards DA, Mooney DJ. 2012. Injectable preformed scaffolds with shape-memory properties. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Nov 27;109(48):19590-5.
  10. Elfilali A, Lair S, Verbeke C, La Rosa P, Radvanyi F, Barillot E. ITTACA: a new database for integrated tumor transcriptome array and clinical data analysis. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006 Jan 1;34:D613-6.

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