Journal of Material Sciences & Engineering

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Biography

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is the Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Medical Sciences at Columbia University, where she directs the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering. She was a founding director of Columbia’s Stem Cell Core, Stem Cell Imaging Core, and the Bioreactor Core of the NIH Tissue Engineering Center. The focus of her research is on engineering human tissues for regenerative medicine, stem cell research and modeling of disease. Her laboratory is funded by the NIH (NIBIB, NHLBI, NIAMS, NIDCR, NCATS, NCI), New York State, research foundations and philantropy. She is extensively published and highly cited, and is a frequent advisor to government and industry. She has over 70 licensed, issued and pending patents, and has founded two biotech companies – epiBone and Tara Biosystems, and is a frequent advisor to government and industry. Dr Vunjak-Novakovic is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering Society, a founding Fellow of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society, and a member of the New York Academy of Science, Academia Europaea, and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She was the first woman engineer to give the Director's lecture at the NIH. She received Clemson Award for contributions to the literature on biomaterials. She was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame, and selected as one of the Foreign Policy 100 Global Thinkers for 2014. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (the first woman at Columbia University to ever get this distinction), the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Inventors.

Research Interest

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is having research interest in engineering human tissues for regenerative medicine, stem cell research , modeling of disease,biomedical engineering,stem cells.