GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES (ONCOLOGY)

LUIS A. SOLCHAGA, PhD Instructor General Medical Sciences (Oncology) Director of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell Core Facility Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Phone: 216/368-6287 Fax: 216/368-4077 email: las29@case.edu

Research Interests

Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Selected Publications

van Heeckeren WJ, Fanning LR, Meyerson HJ, Fu P, Lazarus HM, Cooper BW, Tse WW, Kindwall-Keller TL, Jaroscak J, Finney MR, Fox RM, Solchaga L, Forster M, Creger RJ, Laughlin MJ. Influence of human leucocyte antigen disparity and graft lymphocytes on allogeneic engraftment and survival after umbilical cord blood transplant in adults. Br J Haematol 139:464-474, 2007.

Welter JF, Solchaga LA, Penick KJ. Simplification of aggregate culture of human mesenchymal stem cells as a chondrogenic screening assay. Biotechniques 42:732, 734-737, 2007.

Solchaga LA, Tognana E, Penick K, Baskaran H, Goldberg VM, Caplan AI, Welter JF. A rapid seeding technique for the assembly of large cell/scaffold composite constructs. Tissue Eng 12:1851-1863, 2006.

Wenger R, Hans MG, Welter JF, Solchaga LA, Sheu YR, Malemud CJ. Hydrostatic pressure increases apoptosis in cartilage-constructs produced from human osteoarthritic chondrocytes. Front Biosci 11:1690-1695, 2006.

Penick KJ, Solchaga LA, Welter JF. High-throughput aggregate culture system to assess the chondrogenic potential of mesenchymal stem cells. Biotechniques 39:687-691, 2005.

Penick KJ, Solchaga LA, Berilla JA, Welter JF. Performance of polyoxymethylene plastic (POM) as a component of a tissue engineering bioreactor. J Biomed Mater Res A 75:168-174, 2005.