Treena Livingston Arinzeh

Treena Livingston Arinzeh
Born Treena Livingston
1970 (age 47–48)
Cherry Hill, New Jersey, US
Residence Newark, New Jersey
Nationality American
Alma mater Rutgers University,
Johns Hopkins University,
University of Pennsylvania
Occupation Biomedical Engineer
Employer New Jersey Institute of Technology
Known for Stem cell therapy research

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. 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]

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

She has been a resident of West Orange, New Jersey.[3]

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

  • 2010: Grio Awards recipient
  • 2004: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers [4]
  • 2003: Faculty Early Career Development Award.[1]

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 6 "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.

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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