Liisa T. Kuhn BS, MS, PhD

Dr. Liisa T. Kuhn, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Center for Regenerative Medicine and Skeletal Development at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, CT. Dr. Kuhn received her Ph.D. from the University of California-Santa Barbara in Materials Engineering and completed postdoctoral training at Case Western Reserve University and Harvard Medical School/The Children’s Hospital. Prior to joining the University of Connecticut in 2002 Dr. Kuhn was Director of Orthopaedics Product Development for ETEX Corporation in Boston, MA. Her current research is focused on improving bone growth in the elderly through cell and growth factor delivery using calcium phosphate-based biomaterial scaffolds with polyelectrolyte multilayer coatings.

Her publications are as follows:
Gronowicz G, Secor ER, Flynn JR, Jellison ER, Kuhn LT. Therapeutic Touch Has Significant Effects on Mouse Breast Cancer Metastasis and Immune Responses but Not Primary Tumor Size. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2015; 2015:926565.
Charles LF, Woodman JL, Ueno D, Gronowicz G, Hurley MM, Kuhn LT. Effects of low dose FGF-2 and BMP-2 on healing of calvarial defects in old mice. Exp Gerontol. 2015 Apr; 64:62-9.
Gronowicz G, Hurley MM, Kuhn LT. Optimizing BMP-2-induced bone repair with FGF-2. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2014 Oct; 22(10):677-9.
Xin X, Jiang X, Wang L, Stover ML, Zhan S, Huang J, Goldberg AJ, Liu Y, Kuhn L, Reichenberger EJ, Rowe DW, Lichtler AC. A Site-Specific Integrated Col2.3GFP Reporter Identifies Osteoblasts Within Mineralized Tissue Formed In Vivo by Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Stem Cells Transl Med. 2014 Oct; 3(10):1125-37.
Gronowicz G, Kuhn LT. Response to the letter "Age and site should be considered when investigating the effect of growth factors on human bone-derived cells". J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2014 Sep; 69(9):1092-3.
Gomillion CT, Lakhman RK, Kasi RM, Weiss RA, Kuhn LT, Goldberg AJ. Lithium-end-capped polylactide thin films influence osteoblast progenitor cell differentiation and mineralization. J Biomed Mater Res A. 2015 Feb; 103(2):500-10.