Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, United States of America

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D.

Academic positions:
- 2005-present Director, Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering
- 2005-present Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York NY
- 2007-present Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Surgery, Columbia University, New York NY

All industry positions (in last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
- Tissue engineering, stem cells, bioreactor design

Any other information:

- Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

- Editorial Board memberships:
Tissue Engineering, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing, Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly, Chemical Industry and Chemical Engineering Quarterly

2004–present Co-director, NIH resource center for Tissue Engineering
2007 Organizer and Chair, Keystone conference on Tissue engineering and Developmental Biology, Snowbird, Utah, April 12-17, 2007; Ranked #6 among 2007 Keystone meetings
2006 Guest Editor, Tissue Engineering Journal. Tissue engineering - the next generation. Vol 12, issue 12, December 2006. Cover.
2006 - 2010 NIH Study section on Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI), permanent member
2006 NASA Award for a patent “Bone Morphogenetic Proteins-2, 12, and -13 Modulate in Vitro Development of Engineered Cartilage”
2005 Chair, World congress of in vitro biology, Baltimore MD
2005 The Association of Orthopedic Research, Switzerland; team award “for the best science in orthopaedics” (with Meinel, Ziechner. Fajardo, and Kaplan)
2004 Outstanding Performance Medal, World Congress of In Vitro Biology.
2004 Space Act Award, NASA, for patent describing bioengineering of anterior cruciate ligaments (US patent 6,287,340, issued September 11, 2001)
2005 Convener and co-chair, NIH workshop: Tissue engineering – the next generation. May 2-4 2005, Cambridge MA.
2004 National Science Foundation, Expert group for the assessment of bioengineering needs in Vietnam
2003 - Space Life Sciences Council, NASA
2003 - Board of Directors, GreenFuel, Cambridge MA
1997 Medal of recognition, on the occasion of the Centennial of the Serbian Chemical Society, Belgrade, YU

- Professional Organizations:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Association of Fulbright Scholars
American Chemical Society
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Biomaterials Research Society
Biomedical Engineering Society
European Tissue Engineering Society
Orthopaedic Research Society
Society for in vitro Biology (Cellular Toxicology Section, Chair)
Society for in vitro Biology (Board of Directors, 2002-2006)
Society for Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine
TERMIS (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society)

Professor Vunjak-Novakovic is assisted in some evaluations by Anna Marsano.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology > Musculoskeletal Repair & Regeneration (since 14 November 2005)

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is a Section Head for Musculoskeletal Repair & Regeneration, part of the RHEUMATOLOGY & CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.bme.columbia.edu/p.cgi?i=1

All recent recommendations

• 6.5
  Self-renewing osteoprogenitors in bone marrow sinusoids can organize a hematopoietic microenvironment.
  Recommended by Chantal Chenu, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Suzanne Watt
  
• 6.0
  Three-dimensional perfusion culture of human adipose tissue-derived endothelial and osteoblastic progenitors generates osteogenic constructs with intrinsic vascularization capacity.
  Recommended by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic with Anna Marsano
  
• 6.0
  Chondrogenic differentiation and functional maturation of bovine mesenchymal stem cells in long-term agarose culture.
  Recommended by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic