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Arizona Health Sciences Center 4410
Kellen Chen
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Assistant Research Professor of Surgery
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Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Courses
Directed Research
BME 492 (Spring 2023)
Honors Thesis
ECOL 498H (Spring 2024)
Rsrch Meth Biomed Engr
BME 592 (Fall 2023)
BME 592 (Fall 2022)
Master's Report
BME 909 (Spring 2023)
Selected Publications
Journals/Publications
- Abbas, D. B., Lavin, C. V., Fahy, E. J., Griffin, M., Guardino, N., King, M., Chen, K., Lorenz, P. H., Gurtner, G. C., Longaker, M. T., Momeni, A., & Wan, D. C. (2022). Standardizing Dimensionless Cutometer Parameters to Determine Elasticity of Human Skin. Advances in wound care, 11(6), 297-310.
- Borrelli, M. R., Griffin, M., Chen, K., Deleon Diaz, N. M., Adem, S., Mascharak, S., Shen, A. H., Ngaage, L. M., Lewis, N., Longaker, M. T., Gurtner, G., Wan, D. C., & Lorenz, H. P. (2022). Profibrotic Signaling Pathways and Surface Markers Are Up-Regulated in Fibroblasts of Human Striae Distensae and in a Mouse Model System. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, 150(2), 327-338.
- Chen, K., Henn, D., & Gurtner, G. C. (2022). Holy grail of tissue regeneration: Size. BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology, 44(9), e2200047.
- Chen, K., Henn, D., Januszyk, M., Barrera, J. A., Noishiki, C., Bonham, C. A., Griffin, M., Tevlin, R., Carlomagno, T., Shannon, T., Fehlmann, T., Trotsyuk, A. A., Padmanabhan, J., Sivaraj, D., Perrault, D. P., Zamaleeva, A. I., Mays, C. J., Greco, A. H., Kwon, S. H., , Leeolou, M. C., et al. (2022). Disrupting mechanotransduction decreases fibrosis and contracture in split-thickness skin grafting. Science Translational Medicine, 14(645). doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.abj9152
- Chen, K., Henn, D., Sivaraj, D., Bonham, C. A., Griffin, M., Kussie, H. C., Padmanabhan, J., Trotsyuk, A. A., Wan, D. C., Januszyk, M., Longaker, M. T., & Gurtner, G. C. (2022). Mechanical Strain Drives Myeloid Cell Differentiation Toward Proinflammatory Subpopulations. Advances in wound care, 11(9), 466-478.
- Chen, K., Sivaraj, D., Davitt, M. F., Leeolou, M. C., Henn, D., Steele, S. R., Huskins, S. L., Trotsyuk, A. A., Kussie, H. C., Greco, A. H., Padmanabhan, J., Perrault, D. P., Zamaleeva, A. I., Longaker, M. T., & Gurtner, G. C. (2022). Pullulan-Collagen hydrogel wound dressing promotes dermal remodelling and wound healing compared to commercially available collagen dressings. Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society, 30(3), 397-408.
- Foster, D. S., Januszyk, M., Delitto, D., Yost, K. E., Griffin, M., Guo, J., Guardino, N., Delitto, A. E., Chinta, M., Burcham, A. R., Nguyen, A. T., Bauer-Rowe, K. E., Titan, A. L., Salhotra, A., Jones, R. E., da Silva, O., Lindsay, H. G., Berry, C. E., Chen, K., , Henn, D., et al. (2022). Multiomic analysis reveals conservation of cancer-associated fibroblast phenotypes across species and tissue of origin. Cancer cell, 40(11), 1392-1406.e7.
- Griffin, M. F., Fahy, E. J., King, M., Guardino, N., Chen, K., Abbas, D. B., Lavin, C. V., Diaz Deleon, N. M., Lorenz, H. P., Longaker, M. T., & Wan, D. C. (2022). Understanding Scarring in the Oral Mucosa. Advances in wound care, 11(10), 537-547.
- Gurtner, G. C., Chen, K., & Henn, D. (2022). Holy grail of tissue regeneration: Size. BioEssays, 44(9), 2200047. doi:10.1002/bies.202200047
- Henn, D., Fischer, K. S., Chen, K., Greco, A. H., Martin, R. A., Sivaraj, D., Trotsyuk, A. A., Mao, H. Q., Reddy, S. K., Kneser, U., Gurtner, G. C., Schmidt, V. J., & Sacks, J. M. (2022). Enrichment of Nanofiber Hydrogel Composite with Fractionated Fat Promotes Regenerative Macrophage Polarization and Vascularization for Soft-Tissue Engineering. Plastic and reconstructive surgery, 149(3), 433e-444e.
- Januszyk, M., Griffin, M., Mascharak, S., Talbott, H. E., Chen, K., Henn, D., Spielman, A. F., Parker, J. B., Liang, N. E., Cotterell, A., Guardino, N., Foster, D. S., Wagh, D., Coller, J., Gurtner, G. C., Wan, D. C., & Longaker, M. T. (2022). Multiplexed evaluation of mouse wound tissue using oligonucleotide barcoding with single-cell RNA sequencing. STAR protocols, 4(1), 101946.
- Jiang, Y., Trotsyuk, A. A., Niu, S., Henn, D., Chen, K., Shih, C. C., Larson, M. R., Mermin-Bunnell, A. M., Mittal, S., Lai, J. C., Saberi, A., Beard, E., Jing, S., Zhong, D., Steele, S. R., Sun, K., Jain, T., Zhao, E., Neimeth, C. R., , Viana, W. G., et al. (2022). Wireless, closed-loop, smart bandage with integrated sensors and stimulators for advanced wound care and accelerated healing. Nature biotechnology.
- Mascharak, S., Talbott, H. E., Januszyk, M., Griffin, M., Chen, K., Davitt, M. F., Demeter, J., Henn, D., Bonham, C. A., Foster, D. S., Mooney, N., Cheng, R., Jackson, P. K., Wan, D. C., Gurtner, G. C., & Longaker, M. T. (2022). Multi-omic analysis reveals divergent molecular events in scarring and regenerative wound healing. Cell stem cell, 29(2), 315-327.e6.
- Padmanabhan, J., Liu, F. C., Sivaraj, D., Henn, D., Chen, K., Simon, D. R., Barrera, J. A., & Gurtner, G. C. (2022). Two Independent Capsules Surrounding a Single Textured Implant in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open, 10(8), e4470.
- Sivaraj, D., Fischer, K. S., Kim, T. S., Chen, K., Tigchelaar, S. S., Trotsyuk, A. A., Gurtner, G. C., Lee, G. K., Henn, D., & Nazerali, R. S. (2022). Outcomes of Biosynthetic and Synthetic Mesh in Ventral Hernia Repair. Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open, 10(12), e4707.
Awards
- Bernard G. Sarnat, MD, Excellence in Grant Writing Award
- Plastic Surgery Foundation, Spring 2023
- First Place, Young Investigator’s Award
- Wound Healing Society, Spring 2022
- First Place Basic Science Research Talk
- Stanford Plastic Surgery Research Day, Fall 2021
- Raven Honor Society
- Raven Honor Society, University of Virginia, Fall 2017