Benjamin D. Gastfriend

Also affiliated with University of California San Diego, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

NeuroscienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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Driven by 17 papers. Top paper: “Wnt signaling mediates acquisition of blood–brain barrier properties in naïve endothelium derived from human pluripotent stem cells”.

Wnt signaling mediates acquisition of blood–brain barrier properties in naïve endothelium derived from human pluripotent stem cells

eLife(2021)10.7554/elife.70992

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1.9DataRank · unranked

96 citations

Hideaki Nishihara, Scott G Canfield, Koji L Foreman, Britta Engelhardt, Sean P. Palecek +2 more

Regional heterogeneity of the blood-brain barrier

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-61841-8

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0.373DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Kaja Bajc, Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Caterina P. Profaci, Nadine Ruderisch, Cayce Dorrier +18 more

Transcriptional Responses of In Vitro Blood–Brain Barrier Models to Shear Stress

Biomolecules(2025)10.3390/biom15020193

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0.257DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Moriah E. Katt, Sean P. Palecek, Eric V. Shusta, Koji L. Foreman

Antibody screening using a human iPSC‐based blood‐brain barrier model identifies antibodies that accumulate in the CNS

The FASEB Journal(2020)10.1096/fj.202000851r

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31 citations

Loukas I. Goulatis, Charles C. Stutz, Scott G. Canfield, Hannah Song, Benjamin D. Gastfriend +2 more

A human three-dimensional neural-perivascular ‘assembloid’ promotes astrocytic development and enables modeling of SARS-CoV-2 neuropathology

Nature Medicine(2021)10.1038/s41591-021-01443-1

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148 citations

David Sievert, Alex E. Clark, Sangmoon Lee, Hannah G. Federman, Benjamin D. Gastfriend +5 more

Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to brain microvascular endothelial cell-like cells suitable to study immune cell interactions

STAR Protocols(2021)10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100563

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49 citations

Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Pelin Kasap, Sean P. Palecek, Eric V. Shusta, Britta Engelhardt +1 more

Differentiation of Brain Pericyte‐Like Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cell−Derived Neural Crest

Current Protocols(2021)10.1002/cpz1.21

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21 citations

Matthew J. Stebbins, Feifan Du, Eric V. Shusta, Sean P. Palecek, Benjamin D. Gastfriend

A Human 3D neural assembloid model for SARS-CoV-2 infection

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.02.09.430349

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6 citations

David Sievert, Alex E. Clark, Hannah G. Federman, Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Eric V. Shusta +4 more

A Human 3D neural assembloid model for SARS-CoV-2 infection

Research Square(2021)10.21203/rs.3.rs-214352/v1

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5 citations

Lu Wang, David Sievert, Alex E. Clark, Hannah G. Federman, Benjamin D. Gastfriend +4 more

Wnt signaling mediates acquisition of blood-brain barrier properties in naïve endothelium derived from human pluripotent stem cells

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.05.12.443828

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4 citations

Hideaki Nishihara, Scott G. Canfield, Koji L. Foreman, Britta Engelhardt, Sean P. Palecek +2 more

Intrinsic blood–brain barrier dysfunction contributes to multiple sclerosis pathogenesis

Brain(2022)10.1093/brain/awac019

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121 citations

Sylvain Perriot, Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Marel Steinfort, Celine Cibien, Sasha Soldati +8 more

Antibody-Targeted Liposomes for Enhanced Targeting of the Blood-Brain Barrier

Pharmaceutical Research(2022)10.1007/s11095-022-03186-1

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30 citations

Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Benjamin J. Umlauf, David M. Lynn, Eric V. Shusta, Ye Zhou

Pericytes Enrich the Basement Membrane and Reduce Neutrophil Transmigration in an In Vitro Model of Peripheral Inflammation at the Blood–Brain Barrier

Biomaterials Research(2024)10.34133/bmr.0081

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15 citations

S. Danial Ahmad, Louis P. Widom, Pelin Kasap, Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Eric V. Shusta +7 more

Transcriptomic comparison of human and mouse brain microvessels

Scientific Reports(2020)10.1038/s41598-020-69096-7

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164 citations

Koji L. Foreman, Benjamin D. Gastfriend, John S. Kuo, Sean P. Palecek, Eric V. Shusta +1 more

Identification of Variable Lymphocyte Receptors That Target the Human Blood–Brain Barrier

Pharmaceutics(2025)10.3390/pharmaceutics17091179

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1 citations

Elizabeth A. Waters, Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Brantley R. Herrin, Max D. Cooper, Eric V. Shusta +1 more

Advancing human induced pluripotent stem cell‐derived blood‐brain barrier models for studying immune cell interactions

The FASEB Journal(2020)10.1096/fj.202001507rr

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104 citations

Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Sasha Soldati, Sylvain Perriot, Amandine Mathias, Yasuteru Sano +8 more

Adaptable pulsatile flow generated from stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes using quantitative imaging-based signal transduction

Lab on a Chip(2020)10.1039/d0lc00546k

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9 citations

Daniel A. Gil, Emmanuel Contreras Guzman, Benjamin D. Gastfriend, Kelsey Tweed, Sean P. Palecek +2 more