Research Assistant Professor, Bioengineering

Additional Campus Affiliations

Research Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Research Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Recent Publications

Chalen, I., Wang, S., Gonzalez-Ricon, R. J., Otero, A. M., Rigal, F. J., Byrne, A., Adetunji, S., Best-Popescu, C., & Antonson, A. M. (2026). Maternal IL-17A administration fails to disrupt fetal cortical lamination in the absence of maternal microbes. Discover Neuroscience, 21(1), Article 46. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13064-026-00277-2

Yao, R., Rivera, I., Maldonado, J., Best-Popescu, C. A., Xu, H., Sarkaria, J. N., Wang, J. X., Lu, Y., Selting, K. A., Harley, B. A. C., & Pedrón-Haba, S. (2026). Biomimetic model for the identification of distinctive microenvironmental factors in glioblastoma radiosensitivity. Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology, 59, Article 101204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctro.2026.101204

Boppart, S. A., Best-Popescu, C. A., Bartels, R. A., & Eliceiri, K. (2024). Introducing the Special Issue on Label-Free Quantitative Phase Imaging Honoring Prof. Gabriel Popescu, a Pioneer in Biomedical Optics. Journal of biomedical optics, 29, Article S22701. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.29.S2.S22701

Caetano-Silva, M. E., González-Ricón, R. J., Chalen, I., Best-Popescu, C. A., Antonson, A. M., & Kelley, K. W. (2022). Creating psychoneuroimmunology research networks in Ibero-America. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health, 26, Article 100532. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2022.100532

Ranoa, D. R. E., Holland, R. L., Alnaji, F. G., Green, K. J., Wang, L., Fredrickson, R. L., Wang, T., Wong, G. N., Uelmen, J., Maslov, S., Weiner, Z. J., Tkachenko, A. V., Zhang, H., Liu, Z., Ibrahim, A., Patel, S. J., Paul, J. M., Vance, N. P., Gulick, J. G., ... Burke, M. D. (2022). Mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 transmission at a large public university. Nature communications, 13(1), Article 3207. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30833-3

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