Nina Tandon

Nina Marie Tandon [1] is an American Biomedical engineer . She is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone , [2] “the world’s first company growing bones for skeletal reconstruction.” [3]She Currently Serves as an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union [3] [4] [5] [6] and is a senior fellow at the Lab for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia . [7] She was a 2011 Ted Fellow [8] and a 2012 senior Ted partner. [5] Tandon holds three patents . [9] She co-wrote Super Cells: Building with Biology. [3]

Early life and education

Tandon Grew up on Roosevelt Island in New York City . [10] She had one brother and two sisters. [11] Tandon’s siblings’ll be pursued careers in scientific fields. [12] As a child, she Enjoyed “taking separate TVs and building prosthesis giant Tinkertoy towers, playing with static electricity, and Experimenting on [her] class for science fairs.” [10] She participated in puzzles and problem-solving, community theater, poetry, and sewing. [13]

She attended college at Cooper Union, graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 2001. [4] While completing re undergraduate education, she built an electronic musical instrument welke is played will through human bodies’ Electromagnetic waves . [1] In 2006, she graduated from MIT with a MS in Electrical Engineering, [4] keeping RECEIVED a MIT Presidential Fellowship in 2004. [11] She-then studied at Columbia University, graduating in 2009 with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. [4] At Columbia, she Began customizing human tissues. [14] She’ll be RECEIVED an MBA from Columbia. [15] From 2003 to 2004, Tandon attended the University of Rome Tor Vergata , keeping RECEIVED a Fulbright scholarship . [4]There, she worked on the development of LibraNose, analyzing “patient breath samples to determine the feasibility of a noninvasive cancer-smelling device.” [11]

Career

Tandon worked at Avaya Labs, ontwikkelingslanden communications software [5] [16] voordat Specializing in Biomedical Engineering. She later co-founded EpiBone in 2012 [17] and Currently Serves as the company’s CEO. [3]

Honors and awards

Tandon was a recipient of Marie Claire ‘ s Women on Top Awards in 2013. [18] In 2011, she was named a TED Fellow. [19] The volgende year, she was named a senior TED Fellow [13] and one or Fast Company ‘ s Most Creative People of 2012. [20] [21] She was named a ook Wired innovation fellow [22] and a 2015 Global Thinker at Foreign Policy . [5] L’Oreal Paris named re than one or zijn Women of Worth in the science and innovation category [18] and Crains New York named re as part of zijn 40 Under 40 Class of 2015. [23]

Personal life

In addition under to English, Tandon has studied French and Hindi and is loveable to speak Italian . [24] She has participated in marathons. [20] [10] In 2010, she co-taught a science camp in Lynn , Massachusetts for underprivileged children. [25]

References

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b “The Body Electric” . Bloomberg . 28 February 2011 . Retrieved 10 July 2016 .
  2. Jump up^ Welch, Liz (January 2015). “How a Bone-Growing Startup Lured 66 Investors, Including Peter Thiel” . Inc . Retrieved 13 July 2016 .
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Blank, Steve (1 March 2016). “Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 23: Nina Tandon and Brandon McNaughton” . The Huffington Post . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  4. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e “Sceleb | Nina Tandon” . Future-ish . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  5. ^ Jump up to:a b c d “Nina Tandon” . TED . TED Conferences . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  6. Jump up^ “Nina Tandon” . The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art . Retrieved 13 July 2016 .
  7. Jump up^ “Donate Organs? No, Grow Them from scratch” . CNET . CBS Interactive . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  8. Jump up^ Herro, Alana (30 September 2011). “Fellows Friday with Nina Tandon” . TED Blog . TED Conferences . Retrieved 10 July 2016 .
  9. Jump up^ “Nina Tandon” . Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School . Retrieved 13 July 2016 .
  10. ^ Jump up to:a b c “Nina Tandon, PhD ’09 BME” . Columbia Engineering, Graduate Student Affairs . Columbia University. 20 May 2009 . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  11. ^ Jump up to:a b c Mycynek, Rima Chaddha (20 December 2011). “Nina Tandon, SM ’06” . MIT Technology Review . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  12. Jump up^ Horton, Brooke (7 November 2014). “How to Succeed in Science, volgens to Some of the World’s Brightest Female Scientists” . Mic . Retrieved 13 July 2016 .
  13. ^ Jump up to:a b Laughlin, Shepherd (16 August 2016). “Nina Tandon Is A Heart Maker” . Protein . Retrieved 13 July 2016 .
  14. Jump up^ Brodwin, Erin (11 November 2014). “This Woman’s Revolutionary Startup Could Change 900,000 Surgeries A Year” . Business Insider . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  15. Jump up^ “Nina Tandon” . World Economic Forum . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  16. Jump up^ “Nina Tandon: CEO and Co-Founder of EpiBone, TED Senior Fellow” . The Lavin Agency . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  17. Jump up^ Mohammadi, Dara (7 December 2014). “Lab-grown bones will save patients from keeping hun eigen beans harvested if they ‘need a graft” . The Guardian . Retrieved 13 July 2016 .
  18. ^ Jump up to:a b “About the Nominee – Nina Tandon” . Women Of Worth . NDTV Convergence Limited . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  19. Jump up^ “How Personalized Medicine Will Get?” . NPR . 13 September 2013 . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  20. ^ Jump up to:a b Cain, Patrick (27 April 2012). “26. Nina Tandon” . Fast Company . Retrieved 10 July 2016 .
  21. Jump up^ “How to Grow a Human Arm in a Lab” . Smithsonian.com . Smithsonian Institution . Retrieved 13 July 2016 .
  22. Jump up^ Nave, Kathryn (16 October 2014). “EpiBone: the next industrial revolution will be about life Itself” . Wired . Retrieved 27 May 2016 .
  23. Jump up^ Ivanova, Irina. “40 under 40, Class of 2015 – Nina Tandon, 35” . Crain’s New York Business . Crain Communications . Retrieved 13 July 2016 .
  24. Jump up^ “Engineering for the world” . Spectrum . MIT . Retrieved 10 July 2016 .
  25. Jump up^ Gubar, Simone (3 October 2011). “Poised for Impact” . Columbia Business School . Columbia University . Retrieved 10 July 2016 .