Dino Ravnic
Huck Chair in Regenerative Medicine and Surgical Sciences; Professor of Surgery
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Most Recent Publications
Non-invasive ultrasonic debridement of implant biofilms via hydrogen-sulfide releasing peptide nanoemulsions
Harminder Singh, Diptomit Biswas, Ji Ho Park, Mary E. Landmesser, Dino J. Ravnic, Scott H. Medina, 2025, Biomaterials
Biodegradable Citrate-Based Polymers Enable 5D Monitoring of Implant Evolution
Dingying Shan, Dingbowen Wang, Yuncong Ma, Zhifeng Liang, Dino J. Ravnic, Nanying Zhang, Jian Yang, 2025, Advanced Functional Materials
Surgical Bioengineering of the Microvasculature and Challenges in Clinical Translation
Kevin Schlidt, Mohamadhossein Asgardoon, David A. Febre-Alemañy, Jessica C. El-Mallah, Olivia Waldron, Jazzmyn Dawes, Shailaja Agrawal, Mary E. Landmesser, Dino J. Ravnic, 2025, Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews
Engineering Microgel Packing to Tailor the Physical and Biological Properties of Gelatin Methacryloyl Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds
Arian Jaberi, Alexander Kedzierski, Sina Kheirabadi, Yerbol Tagay, Zaman Ataie, Saman Zavari, Mohammad Naghashnejad, Olivia Waldron, Daksh Adhikari, Gerald Lester, Colin Gallagher, Ali Borhan, Dino Ravnic, Erdem Tabdanov, Amir Sheikhi, 2024, Advanced healthcare materials on p. 2402489
Ushering in the era of regenerative surgery
Olivia P. Waldron, Jessica C. El-Mallah, Dev Lochan, Connie Wen, Mary E. Landmesser, Mohammadhossein Asgardoon, Jazzmyn Dawes, Summer N. Horchler, Kevin Schlidt, Shailaja Agrawal, Yong Wang, Dino J. Ravnic, 2024, Minerva Surgery on p. 166-182
Intraoperative bioprinting of human adipose-derived stem cells and extra-cellular matrix induces hair follicle-like downgrowths and adipose tissue formation during full-thickness craniomaxillofacial skin reconstruction
Youngnam Kang, Miji Yeo, Irem Deniz Derman, Dino J. Ravnic, Yogendra Pratap Singh, Mecit Altan Alioglu, Yang Wu, Jasson Makkar, Ryan R. Driskell, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, 2024, Bioactive Materials on p. 114-128
Accelerating Patterned Vascularization Using Granular Hydrogel Scaffolds and Surgical Micropuncture
Zaman Ataie, Summer Horchler, Arian Jaberi, Srinivas V. Koduru, Jessica C. El-Mallah, Mingjie Sun, Sina Kheirabadi, Alexander Kedzierski, Aneesh Risbud, Angelo Roncalli Alves E. Silva, Dino J. Ravnic, Amir Sheikhi, 2024, Small
Vascular persistence following precision micropuncture
Summer N. Horchler, Patrick C. Hancock, Mingjie Sun, Alexander T. Liu, Sameer Massand, Jessica C. El-Mallah, Dana Goldenberg, Olivia Waldron, Mary E. Landmesser, Shailaja Agrawal, Srinivas V. Koduru, Dino J. Ravnic, 2024, Microcirculation
Posttranscriptional Modification to Modulate Progenitor Differentiation on Heterotypic Spheroids
Nazmiye Celik, Srinivas V. Koduru, Dino J. Ravnic, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, Daniel J. Hayes, 2024, Tissue Engineering - Part A.
Ushering in the era of regenerative surgery.
O Waldron, J El-Mallah, D Lochan, C Wen, M Landmesser, M Asgardoon, J Dawes, S Horchler, K Schlidt, S Agrawal, Y Wang, Dino Ravnic, 2023, Minerva surgery
Most-Cited Papers
Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma: A systematic review
Ashley Leberfinger, Brittany Behar, Nicole C. Williams, Kevin L. Rakszawski, John D. Potochny, Donald R. MacKay, Dino J. Ravnic, 2017, JAMA Surgery on p. 1161-1168
Concise Review: Bioprinting of Stem Cells for Transplantable Tissue Fabrication
Ashley Leberfinger, Dino J. Ravnic, Aman Dhawan, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, 2017, Stem cells translational medicine on p. 1940-1948
Bioprinting functional tissues
Ashley N. Leberfinger, Shantanab Dinda, Yang Wu, Srinivas V. Koduru, Veli Ozbolat, Dino J. Ravnic, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, 2019, Acta Biomaterialia
Transplantation of Bioprinted Tissues and Organs: Technical and Clinical Challenges and Future Perspectives
Dino J. Ravnic, Ashley N. Leberfinger, Srinivas V. Koduru, Monika Hospodiuk, Kazim K. Moncal, Pallab Datta, Madhuri Dey, Elias Rizk, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, 2017, Annals of Surgery on p. 48-58
Intraoperative Bioprinting: Repairing Tissues and Organs in a Surgical Setting
Yang Wu, Dino J. Ravnic, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, 2020, Trends in Biotechnology on p. 594-605
Intra-Operative Bioprinting of Hard, Soft, and Hard/Soft Composite Tissues for Craniomaxillofacial Reconstruction
Kazim Moncal, Hemanth Gudapati, Kevin Godzik, Dong Heo, Youngnam Kang, Elias Rizk, Dino J. Ravnic, Hwabok Wee, David Pepley, Veli Ozbolat, Gregory S. Lewis, Jason Z. Moore, Ryan Driskell, Thomas Samson, Ibrahim Ozbolat, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials on p. 2010858
Hybrid Bioprinting of Zonally Stratified Human Articular Cartilage Using Scaffold-Free Tissue Strands as Building Blocks
Yang Wu, Bugra Ayan, Kazim K. Moncal, Youngnam Kang, Aman Dhawan, Srinivas V. Koduru, Dino J. Ravnic, Fadia Kamal, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, 2020, Advanced healthcare materials
Bioprinting and Cellular Therapies for Type 1 Diabetes
Dino J. Ravnic, Ashley N. Leberfinger, Ibrahim T. Ozbolat, 2017, Trends in Biotechnology on p. 1025-1034
A comprehensive NGS data analysis of differentially regulated miRNAs, piRNAs, lncRNas and sn/snoRNAs in triple negative breast cancer
Srinivas V. Koduru, Amit K. Tiwari, Ashley Leberfinger, Sprague W. Hazard, Yuka Imamura Kawasawa, Milind Mahajan, Dino J. Ravnic, 2017, Journal of Cancer on p. 578-596
Development of Citrate-Based Dual-Imaging Enabled Biodegradable Electroactive Polymers
Dingying Shan, Sri Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Dino J. Ravnic, Ethan Gerhard, Jimin P. Kim, Jinshan Guo, Chuying Ma, Jiazhi Guo, Li Gui, Lin Sun, Di Lu, Jian Yang, 2018, Advanced Functional Materials
News Articles Featuring Dino Ravnic
Feb 28, 2025
Could 3D-printed air revolutionize bioprinting?
A novel technique for creating voids and channels within bioprinted living tissues could help break the vascularization barrier, unlocking the next generation of medical applications for the technology.
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Aug 07, 2024
Biomedical engineer to use $2M NIH grant to improve human tissue repair
A team of Penn State researchers led by Wang was recently awarded a four-year, $2.02 million National Institutes of Health grant to explore how to safely add growth factors to collagen used by doctors for tissue repair.
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Apr 15, 2024
Huck Leadership Fellows selected for 2024-25
For the 2024-2025 academic year, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has appointed Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering Scott Medina, Professor of Statistics Lingzhou Xue, and Associate Professor of Surgery Dino Ravnic to be Huck Leadership Fellows.
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Mar 05, 2024
In a first, scientists 3D bioprint skin during live operation in rats
Researchers have successfully used 3D bioprinting to add layer of skin during an operation to aid recovery
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Mar 05, 2024
Combining novel biomaterial and microsurgery might enable faster tissue recovery
To speed up the formation and patterning of new blood vessels, Penn State researchers have combined a novel biomaterial with a microsurgical approach used in reconstructive surgery, enabling improved recovery of soft tissue.
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Mar 01, 2024
3D-printed skin closes wounds and contains hair follicle precursors
Fat tissue holds the key to 3D printing layered living skin and potentially hair follicles, according to researchers who recently harnessed fat cells and supporting structures from clinically procured human tissue to precisely correct injuries in rats.
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Nov 08, 2023
NIH diversity grant to fund student’s 3D bioprinting research
Angie Castro will be supported by an NIH grant for her work on 3D printing granular scaffolds for tissue engineering and regeneration to meet precise medical needs.
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Jul 06, 2023
Soft tissue restoration, blood vessel formation focus of $3M grant
The ability to regenerate and pattern blood vessels, the literal lifelines extending deep into soft tissues, remains an elusive milestone in regenerative medicine.
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Apr 13, 2022
Ravnic named first Huck Chair in Regenerative Medicine and Surgical Sciences
Dr. Dino Ravnic, associate professor of surgery and director of the Plastic Surgery Research Laboratory at Penn State, has been named the first Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Regenerative Medicine and Surgical Sciences by the University’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
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