Full Name Nina Marie Tandon Occupation Biomedical engineerbusinesspersonauthor Books Super Cells: Building with Biology | ||
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Nina Marie Tandon is an American biomedical engineer. She is the CEO and co-founder of EpiBone, "the world's first company growing bones for skeletal reconstruction." She currently serves as an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union and is a senior fellow at the Lab for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering at Columbia. She was a 2011 Ted Fellow and a 2012 senior Ted Fellow. Tandon holds three patents. She co-wrote Super Cells: Building with Biology.
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- How life sciences technologies are changing the nyc story epibone ceo ted speaker nina tandon
- Early life and education
- Career
- Honors and awards
- Personal life
- References
Early life and education
Tandon grew up on Roosevelt Island in New York City. She had one brother and two sisters. Tandon's siblings also pursued careers in scientific fields. 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." She participated in puzzles and problem-solving, community theatre, poetry, and sewing.
She attended college at Cooper Union, graduating with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering in 2001. While completing her undergraduate education, she built an electronic musical instrument which is played through human bodies' electromagnetic waves. In 2006, she graduated from MIT with a MS in Electrical Engineering, having received a MIT Presidential Fellowship in 2004. She then studied at Columbia University, graduating in 2009 with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. At Columbia, she began creating human tissues. She also received an MBA from Columbia. From 2003 to 2004, Tandon attended University of Rome Tor Vergata, having received a Fulbright scholarship. There, she worked on the development of LibraNose, analyzing "patient breath samples to determine the feasibility of a noninvasive cancer-smelling device."
Career
Tandon worked at Avaya Labs, developing communications software before specializing in biomedical engineering. She later co-founded EpiBone in 2012 and currently serves as the company's CEO.
Honors and awards
Tandon was a recipient of Marie Claire's Women on Top Awards in 2013. In 2011, she was named a TED Fellow. The following year, she was named a senior TED Fellow and one of Fast Company's Most Creative People of 2012. She was also named a Wired innovation fellow and a 2015 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy. L'Oréal Paris named her as one of its Women of Worth in the science and innovation category and Crains New York named her as part of its 40 Under 40 Class of 2015.
Personal life
In addition to English, Tandon has studied French and Hindi and is able to speak Italian. She has participated in marathons. In 2010, she co-taught a science camp in Lynn, Massachusetts for underprivileged children.