Treena Livingston Arinzeh

Treena Livingston Arinzeh is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. She is known for her research on adult stem-cell therapy.[1] 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.[2]

Treena Livingston Arinzeh
Born
Treena Livingston

1970 (age 50–51)
Cherry Hill, New Jersey, US
NationalityAmerican
Alma materRutgers University,
Johns Hopkins University,
University of Pennsylvania
OccupationBiomedical Engineer
EmployerNew Jersey Institute of Technology
Known forStem cell therapy research

Early Life and Education

Arinzeh was born in 1970[3] and raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.[4] She became interested in science by conducting imaginary experiments in the kitchen with her mother, who was a home economics teacher.[5] She was encouraged to pursue a STEM career by her high school physics teacher.[6]

Arinzeh studied Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers University, receiving a B.S. in 1992.[7] She earned a M.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1994.[7][8] She continued her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering in 1999.[5]

Research and Career

After receiving her PhD, Arinzeh went to work for Baltimore-based Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. as a product development engineer.[6] In 2001, she returned to academia and started working at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) in Newark, New Jersey,[7] where she founded the first Tissue Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Laboratory at NJIT in the fall of 2001.[9] She currently still works at NJIT as Professor of Biomedical Engineering.[7] She has published over 60 journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters.[10]

Her current research focuses on systematic studies of the effect of biomaterial properties on stem cell differentiation.[7] She is known for discovering that mixing stem cells with scaffolding[note 1][11] allows regeneration of bone growth and the repair of tissue damage.[12] She also discovered that one person's stem cells could be implanted in another person without causing an adverse immune response.[12] In 2018, she received an QED award to work on the recovery time and cost patients experience after bone grafting procedures.[2]

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.[13]

In 2018, Arinzeh was selected to be a Judge for Nature scientific journal's newly created Innovating Science Panel Award.[9]

Awards

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

References
  1. "Treena Arinzeh | Biomedical Engineering". biomedical.njit.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  2. "QED Spotlight: Treena Arinzeh". sciencecenter.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  3. Hatch, Sybil (2006). Changing our world: true stories of women engineers. Reston: ASCE Press. pp. 15. ISBN 0784408416.
  4. "Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance: HOF Profile". www.rutgersblackalumni.org. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  5. Eboma, Tatsha (May 2006). "The Healer". Crisis.
  6. "BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING: Treena Livingston Arinzeh". Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Diverse Issues in Higher Education. January 13, 2005. Retrieved January 13, 2005.
  7. "Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance: HOF Profile". www.rutgersblackalumni.org. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  8. "5 Top Black Women In STEM". Black Enterprise. 2011-03-01. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  9. "Treena Livingston Arinzeh". www.nsbp.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
  10. "Treena Livingston Arinzeh - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  11. 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)71740-0CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  12. Lum, Lydia (2005). "Engineering a Cure". Black Issues in Higher Education. 21 (24): 23.
  13. "Treena Livingston Arinzeh, PhD". blacksciencenetwork.com. Archived from the original on 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  14. "Treena Livingston Arinzeh". www.sigmaxi.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.

Further reading
  • “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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