Treena Arinzeh
American biomedical engineer
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Treena Livingston Arinzeh (born 1970)[1] is an American biomedical engineer and academic.
1970 (age 55–56)
Treena Arinzeh | |
|---|---|
| Born | Treena Livingston Arinzeh 1970 (age 55–56) |
| Education | Rutgers University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Biomedical Engineer |
| Employer | Columbia University |
| Known for | Stem cell therapy research |
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]
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]
Research and career
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.
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][10] allows regeneration of bone growth and the repair of tissue damage.[11][12]
She discovered that one person's stem cells could be implanted in another person without causing an adverse immune response.[11] In 2018, she received an QED award to work on the recovery time and cost patients experience after bone grafting procedures.[13]
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),[14] the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).,[15] and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
She is a co-PI 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.[15]
In addition, Arinzeh is a mentor in the ACS Project Seeds program supported by the American Chemical Society. Every summer, she mentors high school students to learn about engineering and her research.[16]
In 2018, Arinzeh was selected to be a Judge for Nature scientific journal's newly created Innovating Science Panel Award.[9]
Her accomplishments have been highlighted in various newspaper articles, journals, Black Issues in Higher Education, and Essence Magazine. She has been recognized in a Congressional Record by the U.S House of Representatives.[17]
Awards
- 2018: QED Award recipient [13]
- 2018: George Bugliarello Prize winner [18]
- 2010: Grio Awards recipient [19]
- 2004: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers recipient [5][20][12]
- 2003: Faculty Early Career Development Award recipient, awarded by the National Science Foundation[2]
Select publications
- 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]
Notes
- Here a "scaffold" is a three-dimensional structure (may be porous), seeded with cells and implanted into a tissue.