Sunita Ho, MS, PhD

Professor
Preventive & Restorative Dental Sciences
+1 415 514-2818

Dr. Sunita Ho is a bioengineer who focuses on studies related to biomineralization, biomechanics, and biomaterials. She is a Professor in the Department of Urology, School of Medicine, and in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences (PRDS), School of Dentistry. Dr. Ho focuses on site-specific interventions to mitigate the beginnings of pathologic formations of biomaterials in humans. She investigates the regenerative aspects of soft and hard tissue attachments within craniofacial and musculoskeletal joints. Using biomechanics and mechanobiological approaches, Dr. Ho maps the special and temporal aspects of “mechano-responsiveness.” This is done by correlating mechanical strain induced biochemical signals at soft-hard tissue interfaces using several model systems including the bone-ligament-tooth fibrous joint.

Interests: Functional interfaces and attachment sites within vertebrates

Publications

PLoS One

Age-related adaptation of bone-PDL-tooth complex: Rattus-Norvegicus as a model system

Leong, N.L. and Hurng, J.M. and Djomehri, S.I. and Gansky, S.A. and Ryder, M.I. and Ho, S.P.,

Tribology International

Conductive Composite of UHMWPE and CB as a Dynamic Contact Analysis Sensor

A.C. Clark, S. P. Ho, M. LaBerge

Wear

Nanotribology of CoCr-UHMWPE TJR Prosthesis Using Atomic Force Microscopy

S. P. Ho, R. W. Carpick, T. Boland, M. LaBerge

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