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Last published 2026
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Ishita Tandon

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Postdoctoral fellow

Formerly Arkansas Affiliated with UA Little Rock, University of Arkansas through 2024; recent publications list Augusta University, Augusta University Health.

Postdoc Researcher

9 h-index 33 pubs 299 cited

  • Animals
  • Humans
  • Aortic Valve
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Aortic Valve Stenosis
  • Calcinosis
  • Swine
  • Lab-On-A-Chip Devices
  • Signal Transduction
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm
  • Tumor Microenvironment
  • Disease Progression
  • Cell Differentiation
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton
  • Angiotensin II

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Ishita Tandon, an SEC Emerging Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, focuses her research on developing multiscale in vitro and in vivo models for studying heart valve diseases. Her work specifically targets the early detection and monitoring of calcific aortic valve disease.

Tandon's research has been supported by prestigious fellowships, including the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship and the University of Arkansas Doctoral Academy Fellowship. She has authored 13 peer-reviewed articles and a book chapter, and has presented her work at over 20 conferences. Her scholarly output is reflected in a h-index of 9 and 296 total citations across 33 publications.

Her professional activities include leadership roles such as finance chair of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers and co-founder and president of the Biomedical Engineering Department Graduate Students’ Organization. Tandon's career aspiration is to engage in translational biomedical research within academia, with a concurrent leadership goal of supporting and empowering women in their educational, professional, and leadership pursuits.

Metrics

  • h-index: 9
  • Publications: 33
  • Citations: 299

Selected Publications

  • The future is fully defined: recombinant fragment E8 of laminin-511 is a viable xenofree alternative to Matrigel for hiPSC culture and differentiation into neurovascular cell types (2024)
    Research Square DOI OpenAlex
  • The effect of traumatic injuries on the nervous system (2024)
    Elsevier eBooks DOI OpenAlex
  • Development of an Innovation Corps-Modelled Bioengineering Course to Promote Entrepreneurial Engagement Among Undergraduate Students (2024)
  • A three-dimensional valve-on-chip microphysiological system implicates cell cycle progression, cholesterol metabolism and protein homeostasis in early calcific aortic valve disease progression (2024)
    Acta Biomaterialia 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • A nasal airway-on-chip model to evaluate airflow pre-conditioning during epithelial cell maturation at the air-liquid interface (2024)
    Biofabrication 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The future is fully defined: recombinant fragment E8 of laminin-511 is a viable xenofree alternative to Matrigel for hiPSC culture and differentiation into neurovascular cell types (2024)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Immersive virtual reality-based learning as a supplement for biomedical engineering labs: challenges faced and lessons learned (2024)
    Frontiers in Medical Technology 9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Board 107: Work in Progress: Development of an Innovation Corps-Modeled Bioengineering Course to Promote Entrepreneurial Engagement among Undergraduate Students. (2024)
  • Board 17: Work in progress: Immersive Virtual Reality-Based Learning in Biomedical Engineering Labs: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Efficient Integration (2024)
  • A Three-Dimensional Valve-on-Chip Microphysiological System Reveals Novel Biomarkers of Early Calcific Aortic Valve Disease Progression (2023)
    SSRN Electronic Journal DOI OpenAlex
  • Effect of Cyclic Uniaxial Mechanical Strain on Endothelial Progenitor Cell Differentiation (2022)
    Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Aortic valve cell microenvironment: Considerations for developing a valve-on-chip (2021)
    Biophysics Reviews 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Local Renin-Angiotensin System Signaling Mediates Cellular Function of Aortic Valves (2021)
    Annals of Biomedical Engineering 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Label-Free Multiphoton Microscopy for the Detection and Monitoring of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease (2021)
    Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 11 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Abstract 16123: <i>In Vitro</i> Valve-on-chip Platform to Assess the Effects of Hemodynamic and Mechanical Stimuli on Early Calcific Disease Progression (2020)
    Circulation 1 citation DOI OpenAlex

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