Publications by Queralt Vallmajó Martín

Undifferentiated Human Amniotic Fluid Progenitor Cells Promote Bone Regeneration in Vivo

Stéphanie Elisabeth Metzger, Queralt Vallmajó Martín, Anna-Sofia Johanna Kiveliö

The treatment of large bone defects requires bone tissue substitutes. However, the lack of accessible autologous bone, especially in newborns with spina bifida or cleft palate conditions, severely limits therapeutic options involving bone grafts. Here, an ...

WILEY2025

PEG/HA Hybrid Hydrogels for Biologically and Mechanically Tailorable Bone Marrow Organoids

Nicolas Antoine Vincent Broguiere, Martin Ehrbar, Queralt Vallmajó Martín

Bone marrow (BM) organoids provide powerful tools to study the vital interplay between the BM microenvironment and resident cells. Current biomaterials, however, are limited in terms of versatility for independently studying the biochemical and biophysical ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Smart Hydrogels for the Augmentation of Bone Regeneration by Endogenous Mesenchymal Progenitor Cell Recruitment

Matthias Lütolf, Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Aline Roch, Philipp Sebastian Lienemann, Stéphanie Elisabeth Metzger, Queralt Vallmajó Martín, Martin Ehrbar, Vincent Milleret, Manuel Koch, Panagiota Papageorgiou

The treatment of bone defects with recombinant bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) requires high doses precluding broad clinical application. Here, a bioengineering approach is presented that strongly improves low-dose BMP-2-based bone regeneration by mob ...

WILEY2020

Extracellular Matrix Production by Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Hydrogels Facilitates Cell Spreading and Is Inhibited by FGF-2

Martin Ehrbar, Queralt Vallmajó Martín

In native tissues, the interaction between cells and the surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM) is reciprocal, as cells not only receive signals from the ECM but also actively remodel it through secretion of cell-derived ECM. However, very little is known ...

2020

Bioengineering human bone marrow models to elucidate the triggers of the stem cell niche

Queralt Vallmajó Martín

The bone marrow (BM) microenvironment, or niche, significantly affects behaviors of its resident stem cell populations. Disruptions in the BM niche contribute to a number of severe clinical pathologies. Discovery of novel therapeutic strategies for BM-rela ...

EPFL2019

Notch-inducing hydrogels reveal a perivascular switch of mesenchymal stem cell fate

Queralt Vallmajó Martín

2018

Spatially confined induction of endochondral ossification by functionalized hydrogels for ectopic engineering of osteochondral tissues

Queralt Vallmajó Martín

2018