Treena Livingston Arinzeh
Personal Information
Born: 1970
Country of Birth: USA
Nationality: USA
Ethnicity: Black
Education
Rutgers University, BS in Mechanical Engineering, 1992; Johns Hopkins University, MSE in Biological Engineering, 1994; University of Pennsylvania, PhD in Bioengineering, 1999
Professional Life
Field of Study: Biomedical Engineering
Institution/Corporation: Columbia University; Osiris Therapeutics, Inc
Degrees & Memberships: Member: Fellow American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering, Biological Engineering Association, National Academy of Inventors
Awards & Achievements
Awards: 2004, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers; 2018, QED Award; 2018, George Bugliarello Prize; 2010, Grio Awards; 2003, Faculty Early Career Development Award, National Science Foundation. Fellow of the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering. Member of Biological Engineering Association & National Academy of Inventors
Achievements: holds 14 patents in US & 1 in Canada
Known for research in adult stem cell therapy
Through Project Reads Program opens up her lab at Columbia University to economically disadvantaged High School students for summer internships
Founded the 1st Tissue Engineering & Applied Biomaterials Lab at New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2001
Discovered that mixing stem cells with scaffolding allows regeneration of bone growth & the repair of tissue damage
Discovered one person's stem cells could be implanted in another persons without causing an adverse immune response