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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Biomedical engineer Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD, University Professor, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

In her laboratory at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Vunjak-Novakovic creates new ways to engineer human tissues that could repair damaged organs, help scientists study development and disease, and provide faster methods for testing new drugs.

Her research has potential to develop new materials and techniques to grow bone grafts for facial reconstruction, create heart patches that could repair damage sustained after a heart attack, and improve the way lungs are recovered for transplantation, possibly expanding the pool of available donor lungs. The lab is also designing “organs on a chip”–miniature tissues and organs that mimic human physiology–to test new drugs and personalize patient treatment… Continue reading.

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