MD, Clinical Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 2010 - 2015
MS, Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018
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Drewry, M.D., Shi, D., Dailey, M.T., Rothermund, K., Trbojevic, S., Almarza, A.J., Cui, X.T., & Syed-Picard, F.N. (2024). Enhancing facial nerve regeneration with scaffold-free conduits engineered using dental pulp stem cells and their endogenous, aligned extracellular matrix. J Neural Eng, 21(5), 056015.IOP Publishing. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/ad749d.
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Woeppel, K., Dhawan, V., Shi, D., & Cui, X.T. (2023). Nanotopography-enhanced biomimetic coating maintains bioactivity after weeks of dry storage and improves chronic neural recording. Biomaterials, 302, 122326.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2023.122326.
Kushwah, N., Woeppel, K., Dhawan, V., Shi, D., & Cui, X.T. (2022). Effects of neuronal cell adhesion molecule L1 and nanoparticle surface modification on microglia. Acta Biomater, 149, 273-286.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2022.06.038.
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Shi, D., Dhawan, V., & Cui, X.T. (2021). Bio-integrative design of the neural tissue-device interface. Curr Opin Biotechnol, 72, 54-61.Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.10.003.