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2025International Wound Journal

Understanding the Impact of Ostomy Dejecta Constituents on Peristomal Skin Health and Models for Its Characterisation

Mirella A. Ejiugwo, Julie V. Gawenda, Abram D. Janis, Deborah A. McNamara, Sinéad T. O’Donnell and Shane Browne

This review examines drivers of peristomal skin complications and models for testing preventive interventions.

2025Biofabrication

Collagen silver-doped hydroxyapatite scaffolds reinforced with 3D printed frameworks for infection prevention and enhanced repair of load-bearing bone defects.

Genoud KJ, Sadowska JM, Power RN, Costard LS, Ryan EJ, Matherson AR, Gonzalez-Vazquez AG, Lemoine M, Eichholz K, Pitacco P, Chen G, Cavanagh B, Garcia O, Murphy CM, Curtin CM, Kelly DJ, O'Brien FJ

2025International journal of biological macromolecules

A biomimetic reinforced type I/II collagen and hyaluronic acid scaffold in combination with a chondral biomaterial fixation technique for large articular cartilage defect repair: A pilot pre-clinical study.

Intini C, Joyce M, Uberti M, Labberté MC, Brunetti G, Hackett B, Hodgkinson T, O'Byrne JM, Brama PAJ, O'Brien FJ

2025Materials today. Bio

Hyaluronic acid as a versatile building block for the development of biofunctional hydrogels: In vitro models and preclinical innovations.

Petit N, Chang YJ, Lobianco FA, Hodgkinson T, Browne S

2024Advanced Healthcare Materials

Mobilizing Endogenous Progenitor Cells Using pSDF1α-Activated Scaffolds Accelerates Angiogenesis and Bone Repair in Critical-Sized Bone Defects

Rosanne M. Raftery, Arlyng G. Gonzalez Vazquez, David P. Walsh, Gang Chen, Ashang L. Laiva, Michael B. Keogh and Fergal J. O’Brien

A gene-activated scaffold recruits endogenous progenitor cells to accelerate blood-vessel formation and repair critical-sized bone defects.

2024Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Computational Investigation of Vessel Injury Due to Catheter Tracking During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

David G. Symes, Laoise M. McNamara and Claire Conway

Computational models were used to investigate vessel-wall injury caused by catheter tracking during TAVR.

2024PLOS ONE

In vivo cisplatin-resistant neuroblastoma metastatic model reveals TNFRSF4 as an independent prognostic factor of survival in neuroblastoma

Catherine Murphy, Laura Devis-Jauregui, Ronja Struck, Ariadna Boloix, Ciara Gallagher, Cian Gavin, Federica Cottone, Aroa Soriano Fernandez, Stephen Madden, Josep Roma, Miguel F. Segura and Olga Piskareva

A cisplatin-resistant metastatic neuroblastoma model identified TNFRSF4 as a potential independent prognostic factor.

2024Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)

A Multifunctional Scaffold for Bone Infection Treatment by Delivery of microRNA Therapeutics Combined With Antimicrobial Nanoparticles.

Sadowska JM, Power RN, Genoud KJ, Matheson A, González-Vázquez A, Costard L, Eichholz K, Pitacco P, Hallegouet T, Chen G, Curtin CM, Murphy CM, Cavanagh B, Zhang H, Kelly DJ, Boccaccini AR, O'Brien FJ

2023ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

A Biomimetic, Bilayered Antimicrobial Collagen-Based Scaffold for Enhanced Healing of Complex Wound Conditions

Matthew McGrath, Karolina Zimkowska, Katelyn J. Genoud, Jack Maughan, Javier Gutierrez Gonzalez, Shane Browne and Fergal J. O’Brien

A bilayered collagen scaffold combines biomimetic structure with antimicrobial functionality for complex wound healing.

2023Journal of anatomy

Advancements in left ventricular assist devices to prevent pump thrombosis and blood coagulopathy.

Malone G, Abdelsayed G, Bligh F, Al Qattan F, Syed S, Varatharajullu P, Msellati A, Mwipatayi D, Azhar M, Malone A, Fatimi SH, Conway C, Hameed A

2023Current osteoporosis reports

Biomimetic Inspired Hydrogels for Regenerative Vertebral Body Stenting.

Kaur K, Sannoufi R, Butler JS, Murphy CM

2021Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie

Resveratrol significantly improves cell survival in comparison to dexrazoxane and carvedilol in a h9c2 model of doxorubicin induced cardiotoxicity.

Monahan DS, Flaherty E, Hameed A, Duffy GP

2021Cancers

The Effect of Fluid Flow Shear Stress and Substrate Stiffness on Yes-Associated Protein (YAP) Activity and Osteogenesis in Murine Osteosarcoma Cells.

Coughlin TR, Sana A, Voss K, Gadi A, Basu-Roy U, Curtin CM, Mansukhani A, Kennedy OD

2020Acta biomaterialia

Pre-culture of mesenchymal stem cells within RGD-modified hyaluronic acid hydrogel improves their resilience to ischaemic conditions.

Gallagher LB, Dolan EB, O'Sullivan J, Levey R, Cavanagh BL, Kovarova L, Pravda M, Velebny V, Farrell T, O'Brien FJ, Duffy GP

2020Frontiers in cell and developmental biology

A Context-Dependent Role for MiR-124-3p on Cell Phenotype, Viability and Chemosensitivity in Neuroblastoma in vitro.

Nolan JC, Salvucci M, Carberry S, Barat A, Segura MF, Fenn J, Prehn JHM, Stallings RL, Piskareva O