Publications

2023

• Manuel Eduardo Martinez-Cartagena, Nicolas Muzzio, Gabriela Romero, Juan Bernal-Martinez, David Martinez-Lara, Jorge Moncivaiz-Medina, Manuel Roman-Aguirre, Alfredo Aguilar-Eguezabal, Natanael Cuando-Espitia. “EDOT-pyrrole copolymer conductive nanoparticles and electrodes enhance galvanotaxis in Paramecium tetraurelia; a simple biological model for explorative experiments in therapeutic electrical stimulation”. Materials Today Chemistry, 2023, 101817.
• Amanda Gomez, Nicolas Muzzio, Ania Dudek, Athena Santi, Carolina Redondo, Raquel Zurbano, Rafael Morales, Gabriela Romero*. “Elucidating Mechanotransduction Processes During Magnetomechanical Neuromodulation Mediated by Magnetic Nanodiscs”. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 2023, 16, 283-298.
• Cristina Simo, Cristian Salvador, Patrizia Andreozzi, Vanessa Gomez-Vallejo, Gabriela Romero, Damien Dupin, Jordi Llop* and Sergio Moya*. “Positron Emission Tomography Studies  of the Biodistribution, Translocation, and Fate of Poly Allyl Amine-Based Carriers for Sirna Delivery by Systemic and Intratumoral Administration”, Small, 2023, DOI: 10.1002/smll.202304326.
• Tina M. Rodgers, Nicolas Muzzio, Andrea Valero, Ikram Ahmad, Tanja Ursula Ludtke, Sergio Moya, and Gabriela Romero*. “Poly (β-amino ester) Nanoparticles Modified with a Rabies-Virus-Derived Peptide for the Delivery of ASCL1 across a 3D In Vitro Model of the Blood-Brain Barrier”, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.3c00651.
• Cristian Salvador, Patrizia Andreozzi, Gabriela Romero, Iraida Loinaz, Damien Dupin* and Sergio Moya*. “Self-assembled oleic acid-modified polyallylamines for improved siRNA transfection efficiency and lower cytotoxicity”, ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.2c00845.

2022

• Gabriela Romero*, Jimin Park, Florian Koehler, Arnd Pralle* and Polina Anikeeva*. “Modulating cell signaling in vivo with magnetic nanotransducers”, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 2, 92, 2022.
• Nicolas Muzzio*, Manuel E. Martinez-Cartagena, Gabriela Romero*.  “Soft Nano and Microstructures for the Photomodulation of Cellular Signalling and Behavior”, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2022.114554.
• Mohammed Attia, Randolph D. Glickman, Gabriela Romero, Banglin Chen, Andrew J. Brenner, Jing Yong Ye. “Optimized metal-organic-framework based magnetic nanocomposites for efficient drug delivery and controlled release”, Journal of Drug Delivery Science and Technology, 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.jddst.2022.103770.
• Manuel E. Martinez-Cartagena, Nicolas Muzzio, Rohini Thevi Guntnur, Vanessa Fisher, Skanda Hebbale, Tina Rodgers, Jorgr Romero-Garcia, Gabriela Romero*. “Conductive Conjugated Polymer Nanocapacitors for Localized Electrical Neurostimulation”, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.2c03152.
• Rohini Thevi Guntnur, Nicolas Muzzio, Amanda Gomez, Sean Macias, Arturo Galindo, Arturo Ponce, Gabriela Romero*. “On-demand Chemomagnetic Modulation of Striatal Neurons Facilitated by Hybrid Magnetic Nanoparticles”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202204732.
• Claudia Collier, Nicolas Muzzio, Rohini Thevi Guntnur, Amanda Gomez, Carolina Redondo, Raquel Zurbano, Ivan K. Schuller, Carlos Monton, Rafael Morales*, Gabriela Romero*. “Wireless Force-Inducing Neuronal Stimulation Mediated by High Magnetic Moment Microdiscs”, Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2022, 11(6), 2101826. DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202101826.

2021

• Gloria L. Jimenez, Rohini Thevi Guntnur, Jason Guiliani, Gabriela Romero*. “Enhancing magnetic hyperthermia in ferrite nanoparticles through shape anisotropy and surface hybridization”, AIChE Journal, Futures issue, 2021. DOI: 10.1002/aic.17437.
• Binita Shrestha, Lijun Wang, Eric Brey, Gabriela Romero*, Liang Tang*. “Smart Nanoparticles for Chemo-Based Combinational Therapy”. Pharmaceutics, 2021, 13(6), 853. DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13060853.
• Nicolas Muzzio, Sergio Moya, Gabriela Romero*. “Multifunctional Scaffolds and Synergistic Strategies in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine” Pharmaceutics, 2021, 13(6), 792. DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics13060792.
• Frances Arnold+, Nicolas Muzzio+, Sourav S. Patnaik, Ender A. Finol, Gabriela Romero*. “Pentagalloyl Glucose-Laden Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Nanoparticles for the Biomechanical Extracellular Matrix Stabilization of an In Vitro Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Model”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021, 13 (22), 25771-25782. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c05344. +Contributed equally.
• Rohini Thevi Guntnur, Nicolas Muzzio, Madison Morales, Gabriela Romero*. “Phase Transition Characterization of Poly (oligo (ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate) Brushes using the Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation”. Soft Matter, 2021, 17, 2530-2538. DOI: 10.1039/D0SM02169E.
• Tina Rodgers, Nicolas Muzzio, Caleb Watson, Gabriela Romero*. “Stabilization of Poly (β-Amino Ester) Nanoparticles for the Efficient Intracellular Delivery of PiggyBac Transposon”. Bioengineering, 2021, 8 (2), 16. DOI: 10.3390/bioengineering8020016.

2020

• Angela San Juan, Tina Rodgers, Carlos Bedolla, Francesca Noriega, Gabriela Romero*. “Layer by Layer Surface Engineering of Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Nanoparticles for Plasmid DNA Delivery”. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2020, DOI: 10.1002/app.49377.

2019

• Binita Shrestha, Liang Tang, Gabriela Romero*. “Nanoparticle-Mediated Combination Therapies for Cancer Treatment”. Advanced Therapeutics, 2019, DOI: 10.1002/adtp.201900076.
• Sourav S. Patnaik, Senol Piskin, Narashimha Rao Pillalamarri, Gabriela Romero, G. Patricia Escobar, Eugene Sprague and Ender A. Finol. “Biomechanical Restoration Potential of Pentagalloyl Glucose after Arterial Extracellular Matrix Regeneration”. Bioengineering, 2019, 6 (3), 58.

2017

• Peter Ghoroghchian Paiman ,  Gabriela Romero Uribe, Eric Ostertag. “Poly(histidine)-based micelles for complexation and delivery of proteins and nucleic acids“. Patent US11213594B2. Granted 01/04/2022.

2016

• Gabriela Romero, Michael G. Christiansen, Ligia S. Barbosa, Francisco J. Garcia, Polina Anikeeva. “Localized Excitation of Neural Activity via Rapid Magnetothermal Drug Release”. Advanced Functional Materials, 2016, 6471-6478.
• Eleftheria Diamanti, Danijela Gregurec, Gabriela Romero, Jose Luis Cuellar, Edwin Donath, Sergio Moya. “Lipid Layers on Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: Understanding Lipid-Polyelectrolyte Interactions and Applications on the Surface Engineering of Nanomaterials”. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 16, 2016, 5696-5700.

2015

• Colleen N. Loynachan, Gabriela Romero, Michael G. Christiansen, Ritchie Chen, Rachel Ellison, Tiernan T. O’Malley, Ullrich P. Froriep, Dominic M. Walsh, Polina Anikeeva. “Targeted Magnetic Nanoparticles for Remote Magnetothermal Disruption of Amyloid-β Aggregates”. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 4, 2015, 2100-2109.
• Gabriela Romero, Jacob L. Lilly, Nathan S. Abraham, Hainsworth Y. Shin, Vivek Balasubramaniam, Tadahide Izumi, Brad J. Berron. “Protective Polymer Coatings for Hight-Throughput, High-Purity Cellular Isolation”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7, 2015, 17598-17602.
• Ritchie Chen, Gabriela Romero, Michael Christiansen, Polina Anikeeva. “Wireless Neural Excitation via Transcranial Magnetothermal Stimulation”. Science, 347, 2015, 1477-1480.
• Jacob L. Lilly, Gabriela Romero, Weijie Xu, Hainsworth Y. Shin, Brad J. Berron. “Characterization of Ultrathin Hydrogel Coatings for Cellular Immunoprotection”. Biomacromolecules, 16, 2015, 541-549.

2014

• Jacob L. Lilly, Philip R. Sheldon, Liv J. Hoversten, Gabriela Romero, Vivek Balasubramaniam, Brad J. Berron. “Interfacial Polymerization for Colorimetric Labeling of Protein Expression in Cell and Tissues”. PLoS ONE, 9, 2014, 0115630.
• Michael G. Christiansen, Alexander W. Senko, Ritchie Chen, Gabriela Romero and Polina Anikeeva. “Magnetically Multiplexed Heating of Single Domain Nanoparticles”. Applied Physics Letters, 104, 2014, 21303.
• Marcos Coustet, Joseba Irigiyen, Teodoro Alonso, Richard Murray, Gabriela Romero, Susana Cortizo, Wolfgang Knoll, Omar Azzaroni and Sergio Moya. “Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Polymersomes and Polyelectrolytes on Planar Surfaces and Microsized Colloidal Particles”. Journal of Colloids and Interfaces Science, 421, 2014, 132-140.
• Gabriela Romero, María Echeverria, Yuan Qiu, Richard A. Murray and Sergio Moya. “A novel approach to monitor intracellular degradation kinetics of poly(lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles by means of flow cytometry”. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2(7), 2014, 826-833.

2013

• Gabriela Romero, Richard A. Murray, Yuan Qiu, David Sanz and Sergio Moya. “Layer by Layer Engineering of Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Nanoparticles: a Versatile Tool for Nanoparticle Engineering for Targeted Drug Delivery”. Science China, 56(1), 2013, 1-11.
• Gabriela Romero, Olaia Ochoteco, David José Sanz, Irina Estrela-Lopis, Edwin Donath and Sergio Moya. “Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Nanoparticles Layer by Layer Engineered for the Sustainable Delivery of antiTNF-α”. Macromolecular Bioscience, 13(7), 2013, 903-912.
• Gabriela Romero, David José Sanz, Dahai Yu, Mao Zhengwei, Changyou Gao and Sergio Moya. “Lipid layer Engineering of Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Nanoparticles to control their uptake and intracellular Co-localization”. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 1(17), 2013, 2252-2259.
• Gabriela Romero, Yuan Qiu, Richard A. Murray and Sergio Moya. “Study of Intracellular Delivery of Doxorubicin from Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Nanoparticles by Means of Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Confocal Raman Microscopy”. Macromolecular Bioscience, 13(2), 2013, 234-241.

2012

• Gabriela Romero and Sergio Moya. “Soft matter engineering of Carbon Nanotubes: polyelectrolytes as tools for surface tailoring, templation of hybrid nanostructures and self-organization”. Soft Matter, Highlight article, 8 (38), 2012, 9727-9730.
• Gabriela Romero, Irina Estrela-Lopis, Elena Rojas, Irantzu Llarena, Edwin Donath and Sergio Moya. “Lipid/Polyelectrolyte Coatings to Control Carbon Nanotubes Intracellular Distribution”. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 12, 2012, 4836-4842.

2011

• Irina Estrela-Lopis, Gabriela Romero, Elena Rojas, Sergio Moya and Edwin Donath. “Nanoparticle uptake and their co-localization with cell compartments- a confocal Raman microscopy study at single cell level”. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 304, 2011, No.012046.
• Gabriela Romero, Irina Estrela-Lopis, Pablo Castro Hartman, Elena Rojas, Irantzu Llarena, David Sanz, Edwin Donath and Sergio Moya. “Stepwise Surface Tailoring of Carbon nanotubes with Polyelectrolyte Brushes and Lipid Layers to Control their Intracellular Distribution and “in vitro” Toxicity”. Soft Matter, 7, 2011, 6883-6890.
• Gabriela Romero, Irina Estrela-Lopis, Edwin Donath and Sergio Moya. “Spontaneous Confocal Raman Microscopy- a tool to study the uptake of nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes into cells“. Nanoscale Research Letters, 6, 2011, No. 429.

2010

• Gabriela Romero, Irina Estrela-Lopis, Jie Zhou, Elena Rojas, Ana Franco, Christian Sánchez Espinel, Africa Gonzalez Fernandez, Changyou Gao, Edwin Donath and Sergio Moya. “Surface Engineered Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Nanoparticles for Intracellular Delivery: Uptake and Cytotoxicity—A Confocal Raman Microscopic Study”. Biomacromolecules, 111, 2010, 2993-2999.
• Jie Zhou, Gabriela Romero, Elena Rojas, Sergio Moya, Lie Ma, Changyou Gao. “Folic Acid Modified Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Nanoparticles, Layer-by-Layer Surface Engineered for Targeted Delivery”. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 211, 2010, 404- 411.
• Jie Zhou, Gabriela Romero, Elena Rojas, Sergio Moya, Lie Ma, Changyou Gao. “Layer by layer chitosan/alginate coatings on poly(lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles for antifouling protection and Folic acid binding to achieve selective cell targeting”. Journal of Colloid and Interfaces Science, 345, 2010, 241-247.

2009

• Irantzu Llarena, Gabriela Romero, Ronald F. Ziolo and Sergio E. Moya. “Carbon nanotube surface modification with polyelectrolyte brushes endowed with quantum dots and metal oxide nanoparticles through in situ synthesis“. Nanotechnology, 21, 2010, 055605-005613.

Book Chapters

• Gabriela Romero and Sergio Moya. “Chapter 4: Synthesis of Organic Nanoparticles”. Nanobiotechnology: Inorganic Nanoparticles vs Organic. Elsevier, 2012, 115-141, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.