Speaker

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is University Professor, the highest academic rank at Columbia and the first engineer to ever receive this distinction. The focus of her lab is on engineering functional human tissues for regenerative medicine and patient-specific “organs-on-a-chip” for studies of human patho/physiology. She is a highly cited investigator, has mentored over 250 trainees, and launched five biotech companies. She is a member of the Academia Europaea, International Academy for Medical and Biological Engineering, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Inventors, Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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