Speaker

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is University Professor, as the first ever engineer to hold this highest academic rank at Columbia University. She is also the Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Sciences and Dental Medicine. The focus of her lab is on engineering human tissues for regenerative medicine and patient-specific “organs-on-chip” models of disease. She is broadly published and highly cited, has mentored over 250 trainees, and founded five biotech companies. In addition to many awards and recognitions, she was elected to the Academia Europaea, the USA Academies of Engineering, Medicine and Inventors, the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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