Alok

About

Dr. Alok Kumar is an Instructor at the Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC) of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

His research focuses on engineering cardiac tissue analogs by integrating advanced tissue engineering strategies with 3D bioprinting. He has achieved significant progress in differentiating human iPSCs into cardiomyocytes and recreating key microstructural features of the human heart. His engineered 2D cardiac constructs provide a platform to study how cellular orientation influences cardiac function in both healthy and diseased conditions.

Dr. Kumar is also the Co-Founder of DynamicBio Technologies, a biotechnology company developing physiologically relevant disease-modeling systems and device-based research platforms.

Employment

• Massachusetts General Hospital Instructor in Medicine
  2022 - Present
• Massachusetts General Hospital Research Fellow
  2021 - 2022
• University of Maryland Baltimore Postdoctoral Fellow
  2019 - 2021
• Stevens Institute of Technology Research Associate
  2018 - 2019
• University of Texas at El Paso Research Scientist
  2015 - 2017
• Indian Institute of Science Research Associate
  2013 - 2015

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur PhD
  2008 - 2013

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (24)

• DeepFreeze 3D‐biofabrication for Bioengineering and Storage of Stem Cells in Thick and Large‐Scale Human Tissue Analogs
  Advanced Science 2024 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202306683
  +Save
• Load‐bearing biodegradable polycaprolactone‐poly (lactic‐co‐glycolic acid)‐ beta tri‐calcium phosphate scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration
  Polymers for Advanced Technologies 2019 DOI: 10.1002/pat.4551
  +Save
• Editorial
  Materials Technology 2019 DOI: 10.1080/10667857.2018.1507570
  +Save
• Design and biological functionality of a novel hybrid Ti‐6 A l‐4 V /hydrogel system for reconstruction of bone defects
  Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine 2018 DOI: 10.1002/term.2614
  +Save
• Delivery of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Gelatin–Alginate Hydrogels to Stomach Lumen for Treatment of Gastroparesis
  Bioengineering 2018 DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering5010012
  +Save
• A Bioactive Hydrogel and 3D Printed Polycaprolactone System for Bone Tissue Engineering
  Gels 2017 DOI: 10.3390/gels3030026
  +Save
• Attenuation of the in vitro neurotoxicity of 316L SS by graphene oxide surface coating
  Materials Science and Engineering C 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2016.12.123
  +Save
• Functional response of osteoblasts in functionally gradient titanium alloy mesh arrays processed by 3D additive manufacturing
  Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2016.09.050
  +Save
• Microstructure and compression properties of 3D powder printed Ti-6Al-4V scaffolds with designed porosity: Experimental and computational analysis
  Materials Science and Engineering C 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2016.09.040
  +Save
• Structure–Property Relationship in an Electroconductive Hydroxyapatite–Titanium Disilicide Composite
  International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology 2016 DOI: 10.1111/ijac.12553
  +Save