Professor Shulamit Levenberg
ROLE: Dean, Professor, Stanley and Sylvia Shirvan chair in cancer and life sciences
INSTITUTE: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (TEC)
LAB: Levenberg Lab
ROLE IN THE CONSORTIUM
PI
TEC will take part in the identification of the best combination of cells, biomaterials, growth and differentiation factors required for successful vascularized 'Pan3DP bioprinted pancreatic tissues'.
QUALIFICATIONS
Tissue Engineering
Stem Cells
CORE EXPERTISE
Vascularization
3D scaffolds
Biomaterials
Co-Culture
Bioprinting
Publications
‘Single cell transcriptomic comparison between mouse embryonic pancreas and pancreatic organoids generated from mouse embryonic stem cell-derived mesoderm and pancreatic progenitors.’ Shlomit Edri, Vardit Rosenthal, Or Ginsburg, Abigail Newman Frisch, Christophe E. Pierreux, Nadav Sharon, Shulamit Levenberg. BioRxiv. 2022: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.11.511696 [DOI]
‘Engineered vascular beds provide key signals to pancreatic hormone-producing cells’. Kaufman-Francis K., Koffler J., Weinberg N., Dor Y. and Levenberg S. PLOS One. 2012; 7(7) e40741. PMID: 22808248 [PubMed]
‘Endothelial Cells Support Maturation of hESC-derived Pancreatic Progenitor Cells in a 3D Environment’. Weizman A., Michael I., Wiesel – Motiuk, N, Rezania A. and Levenberg S. Biomaterials Science. 2014; 2 (11): 1706 [Full Text]
‘Engineering Vascularized Skeletal Muscle Tissue’. Levenberg, S., Rouwkema, J., Macdonald, M., Gerfein, E., Kohane, D., Darland D., Marini, R., van Blitterswijk, C.A., Mulligan, R., D’Amore, P. and Langer, R. Nature Biotechnology. 2005; 23:879-884. PMID: 15965465 [PubMed] Cited as a Landmark paper is Nature Biotechnology News and Views
‘Morphogenesis of 3D vascular network is regulated by tensile forces’. Rosenfeld D, Landau S, Shandalov Y, Raindel N, Freiman A, Shor E, Blinder Y, Vandenburgh HH, Mooney D and Levenberg S. PNAS; 2016; 113(12):3215–3220. PMID: 26951667 [PubMed]
‘Improved vascular organization enhances functional integration of engineered skeletal muscle grafts’. Koffler K., Francis K. Shandalov Y., Egozi D., Amiad Pavlov D., Landesberg A. and Levenberg S. PNAS. 2011; 108(36):14789-94 PMID: 21878567 [PubMed]