Poly(l-glutamic acid) augments the transfection performance of lipophilic polycations by overcoming tradeoffs among cytotoxicity, pDNA delivery efficiency, and serum stability

Sekar, R.P., Lawson, J.L., Wright, A.R.E, McGrath, C., Schadeck, C., Kumar, P., Tay, J.W., Dragavon, J., Kumar, R. Poly(l-glutamic acid) augments the transfection performance of lipophilic polycations by overcoming tradeoffs among cytotoxicity, pDNA delivery efficiency, and serum stability (2024), RSC Applied Polymers

Identification of a novel, MSC-induced macrophage subtype via single-cell sequencing: implications for intervertebral disc degeneration therapy

Koroth, J., Chitwood, C. , Kumar, R., Lin, W-H.,  Reves, B.T., Boyce, T., Reineke, T.M.,  Ellingson, A.M., Johnson, C.P., Stone, L.S., Chaffin, K.C., Simha, N.K., Ogle, B.M., Bradley, E.W.,  (2024) Front. Cell Dev. Biol,  Volume 11 – 2023

Materiomically Designed Polymeric Vehicles for Nucleic Acids: Quo Vadis?

Kumar, R. (2022). Materiomically Designed Polymeric Vehicles for Nucleic Acids: Quo Vadis? ACS Applied Bio Materials. 5, 6, 2507–2535

Combinatorial Polycation Synthesis and Causal Machine Learning Reveal Divergent Polymer Design Rules for Effective pDNA and Ribonucleoprotein Delivery

Kumar, R., Le, N., Oviedo, F., Brown, M.E., & Reineke, T.M. (2022) Combinatorial Polycation Synthesis and Causal Machine Learning Reveal Divergent Polymer Design Rules for Effective pDNA and Ribonucleoprotein Delivery. JACS Au, 2, 2, 428–442

Facile synthesis of GalNAc monomers and block polycations for hepatocyte gene delivery

Bockman, M.R., Dalal, R.J., Kumar, R., & Reineke, T.M. (2021) Facile synthesis of GalNAc monomers and block polycations for hepatocyte gene delivery. Polymer Chemistry, 10.1039/D1PY00250C.

Cationic Bottlebrush Polymers Outperform Linear Polycation Analogues for pDNA Delivery and Gene Expression

Dalal, R.J., Kumar, R, Ohnsorg, M., Brown, M.E., & Reineke, T.M. (2021) Cationic Bottlebrush Polymers Outperform Linear Polycation Analogues for pDNA Delivery and Gene Expression. ACS Macro Letters, 10, XXX, 886–893.

Polymeric Delivery of Therapeutic Nucleic Acids

Kumar, R*., Chalarca, C.F.S.*, Bockman, M.R.*, Van Bruggen, C., Grimme. C.J., Dalal, R.J., Hanson, M.G., Hexum, J.K., & Reineke, T.M. (2021) Polymeric Delivery of Therapeutic Nucleic Acids. Chemical Reviews, 10.1021/acs.chemrev.0c00997. *equal contribution

Efficient Polymer-Mediated Delivery of Gene- Editing Ribonucleoprotein Payloads through Combinatorial Design, Parallelized Experimentation, and Machine Learning

Kumar, R., Le, N., Tan, Z., Brown, M.E., Jian, S., & Reineke, T.M. (2020) Efficient polymer-mediated delivery of ribonucleoprotein payloads through combinatorial design & parallelized experimentation. ACS Nano, 10.1021/acsnano.0c08549.

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Block Polymer Micelles Enable CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Delivery: Physicochemical Properties Affect Packaging Mechanisms and Gene Editing Efficiency.

Tan, Z., Jiang, Y., Ganewatta, M.S., Kumar, R., Keith, A., Twaroski, K., Pengo, T., Tolar, J., Lodge, T.P., Reineke, T.M. Block Polymer Micelles Enable CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein Delivery: Physicochemical Properties Affect Packaging Mechanisms and Gene Editing Efficiency. Macromolecules, 52, 21, 8197-8206 (2019).

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Carbohydrate-Based Polymer Brushes Prevent Viral Adsorption on Electrostatically Heterogeneous Interfaces

Kumar, R., Kratzer, D., Cheng, K., Prisby, J., Sugai, J., Giannobile, W. V. & Lahann, J. Carbohydrate-Based Polymer Brushes Prevent Viral Adsorption on Electrostatically Heterogeneous Interfaces. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 40, 1800530 (2019).