User:Mark Ahearne
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- Mark Ahearne
- Trinity Centre for Bioengineering
- Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute
- 152-160 Pearse Street
- Trinity College Dublin
- Dublin, Ireland
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Education
- 2007, PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Keele University
- 2003, MSc in Cell and Tissue Engineering, Keele University
- 2001, BEng in Mechanical Engineering, University of Limerick
Research interests
- Corneal tissue engineering
- Stem cell technology
- Biomechanics
Publications
- Ahearne M, Liu Y, and Kelly DJ. Combining freshly isolated chondroprogenitor cells from the infrapatellar fat pad with a growth factor delivery hydrogel as a putative single stage therapy for articular cartilage repair. Tissue Eng Part A. 2014 Mar;20(5-6):930-9. DOI:10.1089/ten.TEA.2013.0267 |
- Ahearne M and Kelly DJ. A comparison of fibrin, agarose and gellan gum hydrogels as carriers of stem cells and growth factor delivery microspheres for cartilage regeneration. Biomed Mater. 2013 Jun;8(3):035004. DOI:10.1088/1748-6041/8/3/035004 |
- Lynch AP and Ahearne M. Strategies for developing decellularized corneal scaffolds. Exp Eye Res. 2013 Mar;108:42-7. DOI:10.1016/j.exer.2012.12.012 |
- Vinardell T, Rolfe RA, Buckley CT, Meyer EG, Ahearne M, Murphy P, and Kelly DJ. Hydrostatic pressure acts to stabilise a chondrogenic phenotype in porcine joint tissue derived stem cells. Eur Cell Mater. 2012 Feb 23;23:121-32; discussion 133-4. DOI:10.22203/ecm.v023a09 |
- Ahearne M, Buckley CT, and Kelly DJ. A growth factor delivery system for chondrogenic induction of infrapatellar fat pad-derived stem cells in fibrin hydrogels. Biotechnol Appl Biochem. 2011 Sep-Oct;58(5):345-52. DOI:10.1002/bab.45 |
- Then KY, Yang Y, Ahearne M, and El Haj AJ. Effect of microtopographical cues on human keratocyte orientation and gene expression. Curr Eye Res. 2011 Feb;36(2):88-93. DOI:10.3109/02713683.2010.512407 |
- Yang Y, Wimpenny I, and Ahearne M. Portable nanofiber meshes dictate cell orientation throughout three-dimensional hydrogels. Nanomedicine. 2011 Apr;7(2):131-6. DOI:10.1016/j.nano.2010.12.011 |
- Ahearne M, Wilson SL, Liu KK, Rauz S, El Haj AJ, and Yang Y. Influence of cell and collagen concentration on the cell-matrix mechanical relationship in a corneal stroma wound healing model. Exp Eye Res. 2010 Nov;91(5):584-91. DOI:10.1016/j.exer.2010.07.013 |
- Ahearne M, Liu KK, El Haj AJ, Then KY, Rauz S, and Yang Y. Online monitoring of the mechanical behavior of collagen hydrogels: influence of corneal fibroblasts on elastic modulus. Tissue Eng Part C Methods. 2010 Apr;16(2):319-27. DOI:10.1089/ten.TEC.2008.0650 |
- Ahearne M, Bagnaninchi PO, Yang Y, and El Haj AJ. Online monitoring of collagen fibre alignment in tissue-engineered tendon by PSOCT. J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2008 Dec;2(8):521-4. DOI:10.1002/term.124 |
- Ahearne M, Siamantouras E, Yang Y, and Liu KK. Mechanical characterization of biomimetic membranes by micro-shaft poking. J R Soc Interface. 2009 May 6;6(34):471-8. DOI:10.1098/rsif.2008.0317 |
- Ahearne M, Yang Y, Then KY, and Liu KK. Non-destructive mechanical characterisation of UVA/riboflavin crosslinked collagen hydrogels. Br J Ophthalmol. 2008 Feb;92(2):268-71. DOI:10.1136/bjo.2007.130104 |
- Ahearne M, Yang Y, Then KY, and Liu KK. An indentation technique to characterize the mechanical and viscoelastic properties of human and porcine corneas. Ann Biomed Eng. 2007 Sep;35(9):1608-16. DOI:10.1007/s10439-007-9323-9 |
- Yang Y, Bagnaninchi PO, Ahearne M, Wang RK, and Liu KK. A novel optical coherence tomography-based micro-indentation technique for mechanical characterization of hydrogels. J R Soc Interface. 2007 Dec 22;4(17):1169-73. DOI:10.1098/rsif.2007.1044 |
- Ahearne M, Yang Y, El Haj AJ, Then KY, and Liu KK. Characterizing the viscoelastic properties of thin hydrogel-based constructs for tissue engineering applications. J R Soc Interface. 2005 Dec 22;2(5):455-63. DOI:10.1098/rsif.2005.0065 |
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