Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic - Curriculum Vitae#
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is Full Professor in Belgrade, Serbia, for Biomedical Enginering.
She is also the Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vice-Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a Professor of Medicinal Sciences at Columbia University. She directs the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, and the Stem Cell Imaging Core, and co-directs the NIH Tissue Engineering Resource Center, and the Craniofacial Regeneration Center.
She is the lead for bioengineering and the executive committee member for the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative.
She obtained a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering at the University of Belgrade in Serbia where she stayed on faculty and became Full Professor in 1993.
Upon moving to the USA, she spent twelve years at MIT, to join Columbia University in 2005. The focus of her research is on engineering functional human tissues using stem cells, biomaterials and bioreactors, for regenerative medicine and study of development and disease.
She published 2 books, 50 chapters, 300 journal articles (cited over 9,900 times), has 53 patents, and gave 250 invited lectures.
She is a frequent advisor to government and industry, a study section chair and distinguished editor for NIH, scientific advisor for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and is on editorial boards of 12 scientific journals, and numerous advisory boards and councils.
In 2002, she was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
In 2007, she gave the Director's lecture at the NIH, as the first woman engineer to receive this distinction.
In 2008, she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame "for developing biological substitutes to restore, maintain or improve tissue function".
In 2009, she was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences.
In 2010, she received the Clemson Award of the Biomaterials Society “for significant contributions to the literature on biomaterials”.
In 2012 she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering of the USA.
