Gordana Vunjak-Novaković, PhD

University professor at Columbia University, and the Mikati Foundation professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences. Dr. Vunjak-Novaković directs the Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering that is serving as a home for the NIH-funded Tissue Engineering Resource Center. Her focus is on engineering functional human tissues for use in regenerative medicine and patient-specific "organs-on-a-chip" for studies of human pathophysiology. She is well published, and she is one of the most cited individuals of all time. She has 75 licensed, issued, and pending patents, and she co-founded four biotech companies: epiBone, Tara, Xylyx, and Immplacate.