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Treena Arinzeh
American biomedical engineer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Treena Livingston Arinzeh (born 1970)[1] is an American biomedical engineer and academic.
She is professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, joining in 2022. She was formerly a Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. She is known for her research on adult stem-cell therapy.[2]
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Early life and education
Arinzeh was born in 1970[3] and raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[4] She became interested in science by conducting imaginary experiments in the kitchen with her mother, who was a home economics teacher.[5] She was encouraged to pursue a STEM career by her high school physics teacher.[6]
Arinzeh studied Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers University, receiving a B.S. in 1992.[7] She earned a M.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1994.[7][8] She continued her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 1999.[5]
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Research and career
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Arinzeh worked for Baltimore, Maryland-based Osiris Therapeutics as a product development engineer.[6] In 2001, she returned to academia and started working at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, New Jersey,[7] where she founded the first Tissue Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Laboratory at NJIT in the fall of 2001.[9] She was at NJIT until 2022 as a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering.[7] She joined Columbia University as a Professor in Biomedical Engineering in 2022. She has published over 60 journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters.[10]
Her current research focuses on systematic studies of the effect of biomaterial properties on stem cell differentiation.[7] She is known for discovering that mixing stem cells with scaffolding[note 1][11] allows regeneration of bone growth and the repair of tissue damage.[12][13]
She discovered that one person's stem cells could be implanted in another person without causing an adverse immune response.[12] In 2018, she received an QED award to work on the recovery time and cost patients experience after bone grafting procedures.[14]
She was nominated by the Governor of Connecticut to the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee.
She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE),[15] the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).[16], and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
She is currently a co-PI and the Director of Broadening Participation of the NSF Science and Technology Center on Engineering Mechano-Biology, which is a multi-institutional center with the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in St. Louis.[16]
In addition, Arinzeh actively tries to increase representation of minority students in biomedical engineering by being a mentor as part of the Project Seeds program supported by the American Chemical Society. Every summer, she invites 40 to 50 teens from under-represented groups to her lab to learn about engineering and her research.[17]
In 2018, Arinzeh was selected to be a Judge for Nature scientific journal's newly created Innovating Science Panel Award.[9]
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Awards
- 2018: QED Award recipient [14]
- 2018: George Bugliarello Prize winner [18]
- 2010: Grio Awards recipient [19]
- 2004: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers recipient [5][20][13]
- 2003: Faculty Early Career Development Award recipient, awarded by the National Science Foundation[2]
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- 2017: Three-dimensional piezoelectric fibrous scaffolds selectively promote mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. Biomaterials.[21]
- 2015: The effect of PVDF-TrFE scaffolds on stem cell derived cardiovascular cells. Biotechnology & Bioengineering. [22]
- 2015: An investigation of common crosslinking agents on the stability of electrospun collagen scaffolds. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. [23]
- 2013: Examining the formulation of emulsion electrospinning for improving the release of bioactive proteins from electrospun fibers. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. [24]
- 2005: "A comparative study of biphasic calcium phosphate ceramics for human mesenchymal stem-cell-induced bone formation" Biomaterials. [25]
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Notes
- Here a "scaffold" is a three-dimensional structure (may be porous), seeded with cells and implanted into a tissue.
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