Treena Livingston Arinzeh

Treena Livingston Arinzeh is an American biomedical engineer and professor known for her work researching adult stem-cell therapy.[1]

Biography

She was born in 1970[2] and raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[3] Arinzeh began her path in science by creating imaginary experiments with her mother in the kitchen. Arinzeh's mother was a home economics teacher.[4] As a girl she had never met an African-American engineer, but a high school physics teacher encouraged her to pursue a STEM career.[5]

She received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University in 1992.[3] She earned a M.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1994[3] and received her doctorate degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999.[4] Upon receiving her Ph.D., Arinzeh went to work for Baltimore-based Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. as a product development engineer.[5]

Dr. Treena Livingston Arinzeh currently works as an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey.[3]

She contributes to increasing the numbers of minority students in biomedical engineering by inviting 40 to 50 teens from under-represented groups to her lab each summer, as part of the Project Seeds program supported by the American Chemical Society.[6]

Scientific work

Dr. Arinzeh developed the first Tissue Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Laboratory at NJIT in the fall of 2001. She has published over 60 journal articles,[7] conference proceedings, and book chapters. Her current research focuses on systematic studies of the effect of biomaterial properties on stem cell differentiation.[3] She is known for discovering that mixing stem cells with scaffolding allows regeneration of bone growth and the repair of tissue damage.[8] She also discovered that one person's stem cells could be implanted in another person.[8]

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Treena Arinzeh | Biomedical Engineering". biomedical.njit.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  2. ↑ Hatch, Sybil (2006). Changing our world: true stories of women engineers. Reston: ASCE Press. p. 15. ISBN 0784408416.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance: HOF Profile". www.rutgersblackalumni.org. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  4. 1 2 3 Eboma, Tatsha (May 2006). "The Healer". Crisis.
  5. 1 2 "BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: Treena Livingston Arinzeh". Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Diverse Issues in Higher Education. January 13, 2005. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
  6. ↑ "Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD". blacksciencenetwork.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  7. ↑ "Treena Livingston Arinzeh - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  8. 1 2 Lum, Lydia (2005). "Engineering a Cure". Black Issues in Higher Education. 21 (24): 23.
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