Nina Tandon

Nina Tandon

Tandon at #EMCWorld in 2014
Born Nina Marie Tandon
Education
Occupation
Title CEO of EpiBone

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 adjunct 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 Fellow.[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 also pursued careers in scientific fields.[12] As a child, she enjoyed "taking apart TVs and building these giant Tinkertoy towers, playing with static electricity, and experimenting on [her] class for science fairs."[10] She participated in puzzles and problem-solving, community theatre, poetry, and sewing.[13]

She attended college at Cooper Union, graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 2001.[4] While completing her undergraduate education, she built an electronic musical instrument which is played through human bodies' electromagnetic waves.[1] In 2006, she graduated from MIT with a MS in Electrical Engineering,[4] having 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 creating human tissues.[14] She also received an MBA from Columbia.[15] From 2003 to 2004, Tandon attended University of Rome Tor Vergata, having 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, developing communications software[5][16] before 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 following year, she was named a senior TED Fellow[13] and one of Fast Company's Most Creative People of 2012.[20][21] She was also named a Wired innovation fellow[22] and a 2015 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy.[5] L'Oréal Paris named her as one of its Women of Worth in the science and innovation category[18] and Crains New York named her as part of its 40 Under 40 Class of 2015.[23]

Personal life

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

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