Treena Arinzeh

Treena Arinzeh
Born
Treena Livingston Arinzeh

1970 (age 53–54)
Cherry Hill, New Jersey, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRutgers University,
Johns Hopkins University,
University of Pennsylvania
OccupationBiomedical Engineer
EmployerColumbia University
Known forStem cell therapy research

Treena Livingston Arinzeh (born 1970)[1] is an American biomedical engineer and academic.

She is professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, joining in 2022. She was formerly a Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. She is known for her research on adult stem-cell therapy.[2] Arinzeh takes part in the American Chemical Society's Project Seeds program, opening up her lab for high school students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds for summer internships.[3]

Early life and education

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Arinzeh was born in 1970[4] and raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[5] She became interested in science by conducting imaginary experiments in the kitchen with her mother, who was a home economics teacher.[6] She was encouraged to pursue a STEM career by her high school physics teacher.[7]

Arinzeh studied Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers University, receiving a B.S. in 1992.[8] She earned a M.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1994.[8][9] She continued her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 1999.[6]

Research and career

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Arinzeh worked for Baltimore, Maryland-based Osiris Therapeutics as a product development engineer.[7] In 2001, she returned to academia and started working at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, New Jersey,[8] where she founded the first Tissue Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Laboratory at NJIT in the fall of 2001.[10] She was at NJIT until 2022 as a Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering.[8] She joined Columbia University as a Professor in Biomedical Engineering in 2022. She has published over 60 journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters.[11]

Her current research focuses on systematic studies of the effect of biomaterial properties on stem cell differentiation.[8] She is known for discovering that mixing stem cells with scaffolding[note 1][12] allows regeneration of bone growth and the repair of tissue damage.[13][14]

She discovered that one person's stem cells could be implanted in another person without causing an adverse immune response.[13] In 2018, she received an QED award to work on the recovery time and cost patients experience after bone grafting procedures.[3]

She was nominated by the Governor of Connecticut to the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Advisory Committee.

She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)[15] and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).[16]

She is currently a co-PI and the Director of Diversity of the NSF Science and Technology Center on Engineering Mechano-Biology, which is a multi-institutional center with the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in St. Louis.[16]

In addition, Arinzeh actively tries to increase representation of minority students in biomedical engineering by being a mentor as part of the Project Seeds program supported by the American Chemical Society. Every summer, she invites 40 to 50 teens from under-represented groups to her lab to learn about engineering and her research.[17]

In 2018, Arinzeh was selected to be a Judge for Nature scientific journal's newly created Innovating Science Panel Award.[10]

Awards

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Select Publications

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  • 2017: Three-dimensional piezoelectric fibrous scaffolds selectively promote mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. Biomaterials.[21]
  • 2015: The effect of PVDF-TrFE scaffolds on stem cell derived cardiovascular cells. Biotechnology & Bioengineering. [22]
  • 2015: An investigation of common crosslinking agents on the stability of electrospun collagen scaffolds. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. [23]
  • 2013: Examining the formulation of emulsion electrospinning for improving the release of bioactive proteins from electrospun fibers. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. [24]
  • 2005: "A comparative study of biphasic calcium phosphate ceramics for human mesenchymal stem-cell-induced bone formation" Biomaterials. [25]

Notes

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  1. ^ Here a "scaffold" is a three-dimensional structure (may be porous), seeded with cells and implanted into a tissue.

References

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  1. ^ NOTE: Some sources, including this NIH profile give her middle name as "Lynne", nih.gov. Accessed February 10, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Treena Arinzeh | Biomedical Engineering". biomedical.njit.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  3. ^ a b c "QED Spotlight: Treena Arinzeh". sciencecenter.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  4. ^ Hatch, Sybil (2006). Changing our world: true stories of women engineers. Reston: ASCE Press. pp. 15. ISBN 0784408416.
  5. ^ "Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance: HOF Profile". www.rutgersblackalumni.org. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  6. ^ a b c Eboma, Tatsha (May 2006). "The Healer". Crisis.
  7. ^ a b "BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: Treena Livingston Arinzeh". Diverse Issues in Higher Education. January 13, 2005. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance: HOF Profile". www.rutgersblackalumni.org. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  9. ^ "5 Top Black Women In STEM". Black Enterprise. 2011-03-01. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  10. ^ a b "Treena Livingston Arinzeh". www.nsbp.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  11. ^ "Treena Livingston Arinzeh - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  12. ^ Evans, Nicholas D.; Gentleman, Eileen; Polak, Julia M. (December 2006), "Scaffolds for stem cells. Review.", Materials Today, 9 (12): 26–33, doi:10.1016/S1369-7021(06)71740-0
  13. ^ a b Lum, Lydia (2005). "Engineering a Cure". Black Issues in Higher Education. 21 (24): 23.
  14. ^ a b "Timeline | engineering100". www.njit.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  15. ^ "Treena Livingston Arinzeh, Ph.D COF-1534 - AIMBE". Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  16. ^ a b "Treena Arinzeh | People". people.njit.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  17. ^ "Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD". blacksciencenetwork.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  18. ^ "Treena Livingston Arinzeh". www.sigmaxi.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  19. ^ "TheGrio's 100: Treena Livingston Arinzeh, getting the root of stem cell science". TheGrio. 2010-02-01. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  20. ^ "Twelve Women are Among NSF-Supported Young Scientists and Engineers to Receive Presidential Award for Early Career Achievements". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2022-02-15.
  21. ^ Damaraju, Sita M.; Shen, Yueyang; Elele, Ezinwa; Khusid, Boris; Eshghinejad, Ahmad; Li, Jiangyu; Jaffe, Michael; Arinzeh, Treena Livingston (December 2017). "Three-dimensional piezoelectric fibrous scaffolds selectively promote mesenchymal stem cell differentiation". Biomaterials. 149: 51–62. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.09.024. ISSN 0142-9612. PMID 28992510.
  22. ^ Hitscherich, Pamela; Wu, Siliang; Gordan, Richard; Xie, Lai-Hua; Arinzeh, Treena; Lee, Eun Jung (2016-01-28). "The effect of PVDF-TrFE scaffolds on stem cell derived cardiovascular cells". Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 113 (7): 1577–1585. doi:10.1002/bit.25918. ISSN 0006-3592. PMID 26705272. S2CID 21528647.
  23. ^ Huang, Gloria Portocarrero; Shanmugasundaram, Shobana; Masih, Pallavi; Pandya, Deep; Amara, Suwah; Collins, George; Arinzeh, Treena Livingston (2014-05-28). "An investigation of common crosslinking agents on the stability of electrospun collagen scaffolds". Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 103 (2): 762–771. doi:10.1002/jbm.a.35222. ISSN 1549-3296. PMID 24828818.
  24. ^ Briggs, Tonye; Arinzeh, Treena Livingston (2013-05-30). "Examining the formulation of emulsion electrospinning for improving the release of bioactive proteins from electrospun fibers". Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 102 (3): 674–684. doi:10.1002/jbm.a.34730. ISSN 1549-3296. PMID 23554256.
  25. ^ Arinzeh, T. Livingston; Tran, T.; Mcalary, J.; Daculsi, G. (2005-06-01). "A comparative study of biphasic calcium phosphate ceramics for human mesenchymal stem-cell-induced bone formation". Biomaterials. 26 (17): 3631–3638. doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2004.09.035. ISSN 0142-9612. PMID 15621253.

Further reading

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  • "Treena Livingston Arinzeh Receives Innovators Award from NJ Inventors Hall of Fame." New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJIT News Room, 28 Oct. 2013, www6.njit.edu/news/2013/2013-352.php.
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