Taufiek Konrad Rajab
Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: Arkansas Children's Hospital (2024–2025); University of Minnesota (2011); Medical University of South Carolina (2020–2023); University of Arkansas Medical Center (2025); Papworth Hospital (2018); Children's Hospital Colorado (2020); Imperial College London (2007); University of Colorado Anschutz (2020); University of Tübingen (2007); University of Colorado Denver (2020)
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Taufiek Konrad Rajab's research focuses on bioengineering and regenerative medicine, with a particular emphasis on developing functional organ grafts and investigating strategies to prevent post-surgical complications. His work includes the biofabrication of vascularized islet organs for type 1 diabetes and the engineering of human lung grafts on porcine matrices. Rajab also studies methods for preventing intraperitoneal adhesions, comparing the efficacy of various barrier materials.
His clinical interests include congenital heart defects and surgical outcomes. Rajab has published on the partial heart transplant in a neonate with truncal valve dysfunction and has analyzed risk factors for complications following free tissue transfer based on a large patient database. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 28, with over 219 publications and 2,617 citations. Rajab collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
Metrics
- h-index: 28
- Publications: 219
- Citations: 2,617
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Assistant Professor publications 2025University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences COM | Surgery Ped Cardio Institutional directory
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences publications 2025ORCID
Selected Publications
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Partial Heart Transplantation Using Ice-Free Vitrification – Next Generation of Homovitals (2026)
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A call to redefine cardiovascular immunobiology around leukocyte plasticity (2026)
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Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes (2026)
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Abstract 4371518: Vitrified Partial Heart Transplants Grow at the Same Rate as Fresh Partial Heart Transplants and Retain Viable Donor Cells In-Vivo (2025)
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Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets (2025)
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Ethical Oversight of First-in-Human Cardiac Procedures for Congenital Heart Disease in Children (2025)
Grants & Funding
As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.
- Partial Heart Transplantation with Reduced Levels of Immunosuppression Brett Boyer Foundation Principal Investigator
- Evaluation of growth potential of ice-free vitrified heart valves in a pediatric porcine model. NIH Principal Investigator
- Pulmonary Valve Partial Heart Transplantation in Piglets Darby Children's Research Institute Principal Investigator
- Partial Heart Transplant and Homografts Saving tiny Hearts Society Principal Investigator
- Simulating Partial Heart Transplantation Emerson Rose Heart Foundation Principal Investigator
- Partial Heart Transplantation: A New Approach to Deliver Growing Heart Valve Implants American Association for Thoracic Surgery Principal Investigator
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- Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets
- Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes
- A call to redefine cardiovascular immunobiology around leukocyte plasticity
- Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets
- Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes
- Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets
- Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes
- Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets
- Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes
- Ethical Oversight of First-in-Human Cardiac Procedures for Congenital Heart Disease in Children
- Ethical Oversight of First-in-Human Cardiac Procedures for Congenital Heart Disease in Children
- Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets
- Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets
- Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets
- Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets
- Transthoracic echocardiography for evaluating cardiac parameters in growing piglets
- Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes
- Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes
- Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes
- Protocol for partial heart transplantation of the pulmonary valve in a swine model: surgical technique, postoperative care, assessments and outcomes
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