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Margarete Akens

ResearcherPhysicsUniversity of Toronto

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Margarete Akens

Researcher

Physics

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 1 research grant (1 CIHR), most recently in 2014.

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Research

Bone Graft Burst-Mode Fiber Optic Catheter Laser Surgery Orthopaedic Surgery Plasma-Mediated Ablation Tissue Ablation Tissue Debridement

Latest papers

IFN-γ drives long-term bone marrow niche dysfunction following doxorubicin-based chemotherapy.
Blood · 2026
A Possible Treatment for Fragility Fractures of the Pelvis? The Impact of Probiotic Treatment on Pelvic Bone Microstructure and Strength in Osteoporotic Rats.
Journal of orthopaedic trauma · 2026
Treatment affects load to failure and microdamage accumulation in healthy and osteolytic rat vertebrae.
Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials · 2024

All 13 publications

Latest funding

Advancing Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation in Canada: A Novel Storage Medium for Extended Tissue Preservation
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$474,299
Rapid high sensitivity and specificity diagnosis of melanoma with Picosecond infrared laser mass spectrometry
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$619,650
Quantifying Osteosarcopenia Progression with Imaging Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer
CIHR · 2021 · Co-investigator
$636,180

All 5 grants and awards

13 publications.

IFN-γ drives long-term bone marrow niche dysfunction following doxorubicin-based chemotherapy.

Li X, Aguilar-Navarro AG, Nader M, Jahangiri S, Lee HS, Edun G, Gower M, Yang D, Fernandez M, Lin B, Oh D, Farhat S, Phillips DM, Bartman S, Murray D, Kaszuba C, Kossinna P, Kamath M, Whyne C, Schwartz G, Bajaj J, Kislinger T, Zhou BO, Coutu D, Akens M, Changoor A, Mallevaey T, Gaiti F, Jones C, Naik S, Minden M, Arruda A, Hitzler J, Lee KJ, Kim YM, Adams RH, Sivara KK, Tikhonova AN

Blood2026

DOI: 10.1182/blood.2025030946 PMID: 42008378

A Possible Treatment for Fragility Fractures of the Pelvis? The Impact of Probiotic Treatment on Pelvic Bone Microstructure and Strength in Osteoporotic Rats.

Bartman S, Dawdy M, Wang Y, Akens M, Whyne C, Nam D

Journal of orthopaedic trauma2026

DOI: 10.1097/bot.0000000000003138 PMID: 41364072

Treatment affects load to failure and microdamage accumulation in healthy and osteolytic rat vertebrae.

Tolgyesi A, Huang C, Akens M, Kiss A, Hardisty M, Whyne CM

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2024.106382 PMID: 38211499

Rabbit VX2 head and neck squamous cell models for translational head and neck theranostic technology development.

Muhanna N, Douglas CM, Chan HHL, Daly MJ, Townson JL, Ferrari M, Eu D, Akens M, Chen J, Zheng G, Irish JC

Clinical and translational medicine2021

DOI: 10.1002/ctm2.550 PMID: 34709737

Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Vertebral Metastases: A Phase I Clinical Trial.

Fisher C, Ali Z, Detsky J, Sahgal A, David E, Kunz M, Akens M, Chow E, Whyne C, Burch S, Wilson BC, Yee A

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research2019

DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-19-0673 PMID: 31266832

Collagen fibril organization within rat vertebral bone modified with metastatic involvement.

Burke M, Golaraei A, Atkins A, Akens M, Barzda V, Whyne C

Journal of structural biology2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2017.06.008 PMID: 28655593

The impact of metastasis on the mineral phase of vertebral bone tissue.

Burke M, Atkins A, Kiss A, Akens M, Yee A, Whyne C

Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2016.12.017 PMID: 28040610

Osteolytic and mixed cancer metastasis modulates collagen and mineral parameters within rat vertebral bone matrix.

Burke MV, Atkins A, Akens M, Willett TL, Whyne CM

Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society2016

DOI: 10.1002/jor.23248 PMID: 27027407

Nanoparticle-based sorting of circulating tumor cells by epithelial antigen expression during disease progression in an animal model.

Muhanna N, Mepham A, Mohamadi RM, Chan H, Khan T, Akens M, Besant JD, Irish J, Kelley SO

Nanomedicine : nanotechnology, biology, and medicine2015

DOI: 10.1016/j.nano.2015.04.017 PMID: 25981337

Evaluation of a novel poly N-acetyl glucosamine (pGlcNAc) hydrogel for treatment of the degenerating intervertebral disc.

Gorapalli D, Seth A, Vournakis J, Whyne C, Akens M, Zhang A, Demcheva M, Qamirani E, Yee A

Life sciences2012

DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2012.10.014 PMID: 23123444

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Margarete Akens

Research

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Latest funding

IFN-γ drives long-term bone marrow niche dysfunction following doxorubicin-based chemotherapy.

A Possible Treatment for Fragility Fractures of the Pelvis? The Impact of Probiotic Treatment on Pelvic Bone Microstructure and Strength in Osteoporotic Rats.

Treatment affects load to failure and microdamage accumulation in healthy and osteolytic rat vertebrae.

Rabbit VX2 head and neck squamous cell models for translational head and neck theranostic technology development.

Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Vertebral Metastases: A Phase I Clinical Trial.

Collagen fibril organization within rat vertebral bone modified with metastatic involvement.

The impact of metastasis on the mineral phase of vertebral bone tissue.

Osteolytic and mixed cancer metastasis modulates collagen and mineral parameters within rat vertebral bone matrix.

Nanoparticle-based sorting of circulating tumor cells by epithelial antigen expression during disease progression in an animal model.

Evaluation of a novel poly N-acetyl glucosamine (pGlcNAc) hydrogel for treatment of the degenerating intervertebral disc.

Advancing Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation in Canada: A Novel Storage Medium for Extended Tissue Preservation

Rapid high sensitivity and specificity diagnosis of melanoma with Picosecond infrared laser mass spectrometry

Quantifying Osteosarcopenia Progression with Imaging Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer

Orthopaedic surgical platform which uses burst-mode ultrafast laser pulses delivered by high-power fiber-optic catheter for less-invasive surgery with ultrafine control

Orthopaedic surgical platform which uses burst-mode ultrafast laser pulses delivered by high-power fiber-optic catheter for less-invasive surgery with ultrafine control

Frequent collaborators

Cari Whyne

Albert Yee

Lothar Lilge

Johann Hitzler

Jonathan Irish

Mark Minden

Arjun Sahgal

Michael Hardisty

Gregory Schwartz

Federico Gaiti

Adele Changoor

Daniel Coutu

Arun Seth

Diane Nam

Thierry Mallevaey

Gang Zheng

Burton Yang

Thomas Kislinger

Virginijus Barzda

Burton Yang

Margarete Akens

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

IFN-&#x3b3; drives long-term bone marrow niche dysfunction following doxorubicin-based chemotherapy.

A Possible Treatment for Fragility Fractures of the Pelvis? The Impact of Probiotic Treatment on Pelvic Bone Microstructure and Strength in Osteoporotic Rats.

Treatment affects load to failure and microdamage accumulation in healthy and osteolytic rat vertebrae.

Rabbit VX2 head and neck squamous cell models for translational head and neck theranostic technology development.

Photodynamic Therapy for the Treatment of Vertebral Metastases: A Phase I Clinical Trial.

Collagen fibril organization within rat vertebral bone modified with metastatic involvement.

The impact of metastasis on the mineral phase of vertebral bone tissue.

Osteolytic and mixed cancer metastasis modulates collagen and mineral parameters within rat vertebral bone matrix.

Nanoparticle-based sorting of circulating tumor cells by epithelial antigen expression during disease progression in an animal model.

Evaluation of a novel poly N-acetyl glucosamine (pGlcNAc) hydrogel for treatment of the degenerating intervertebral disc.

Advancing Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation in Canada: A Novel Storage Medium for Extended Tissue Preservation

Rapid high sensitivity and specificity diagnosis of melanoma with Picosecond infrared laser mass spectrometry

Quantifying Osteosarcopenia Progression with Imaging Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer

Orthopaedic surgical platform which uses burst-mode ultrafast laser pulses delivered by high-power fiber-optic catheter for less-invasive surgery with ultrafine control

Orthopaedic surgical platform which uses burst-mode ultrafast laser pulses delivered by high-power fiber-optic catheter for less-invasive surgery with ultrafine control

Frequent collaborators

Cari Whyne

Albert Yee

Lothar Lilge

Johann Hitzler

Jonathan Irish

Mark Minden

Arjun Sahgal

Michael Hardisty

Gregory Schwartz

Federico Gaiti

Adele Changoor

Daniel Coutu

Arun Seth

Diane Nam

Thierry Mallevaey

Gang Zheng

Burton Yang

Thomas Kislinger

Virginijus Barzda

Burton Yang

IFN-γ drives long-term bone marrow niche dysfunction following doxorubicin-based chemotherapy.