Email
npp@dental.pitt.edu

Phone
412-648-8502

Office
619 Salk Hall
3501 Terrace Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Position
Associate Professor, Department of Oral Biology
School of Dental Medicine

Research Interests

Tissue Engineering of Human Dental Tissues:  Using dental and oral tissues from hu­man samples we plan to identify and isolate stem cells and develop a cell and organ culture model for growing viable and implantable tissues and organs.

Recent Publications

Nair MK, Nair UP, Seyedain A, Gassner R, Piesco N, Mooney M, Ganta S, Agarwal S. Correlation of tuned aperture computed tomography with conventional computed tomography for evaluation of osseous healing in calvarial defects. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2007 Feb;103(2):267-73. Epub 2006 Aug 2.

Ozdemir D. Hart PS. Ryu OH. Choi SJ. Ozdemir-Karatas M. Firatli E. Piesco N. Hart TC. MMP20 active-site mutation in hypomaturation amelogenesis imperfecta. Journal of Dental Research 2005 Nov; 84(11):1031-5.

Ferretti M, Srinivasan A, Deschner J, Gassner R, Baliko F, Piesco N, Salter R, Agarwal S. Anti-inflammatory effects of continuous passive motion on meniscal fibrocartilage. J Orthop Res. 2005 Sep;23(5):1165-71. Epub 2005 Apr 22.

Agarwal S, Deschner J, Long P, Verma A, Hofman C, Evans CH, Piesco N. Role of NF-kappaB transcription factors in antiinflammatory and proinflammatory actions of mechanical signals. Arthritis Rheum. 2004 Nov;50(11):3541-8.