!!!Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
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__Present and Previous Positions__
*Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering
* 2011 Vice-Chair, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York
* 2011 Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medical Sciences (in Medicine) 
* 2005 Professor, Columbia University, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, New York
* 2005 Director, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering Laboratory, Columbia University
* 2005 Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard-MIT Division for Health Sciences and Technology
* 2009 Visiting Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
* 2009 Honorary Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Belgrade
* 2002 Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering. Tufts University, Medford MA
* 1998 - 2005 Principal Research Scientist, Harvard – MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Cambridge MA
* 1994 - 2004 Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University
* 1993 - 1998  Research Scientist, Whitaker College, MIT, Cambridge MA
* 1993 - 1999 Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Belgrade University, Yugoslavia
* 1987 - 1992 Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia
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__Honours and Awards__
*2026 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award "''for her pioneering work in human tissue engineering and regenerative medicine''"
*2023 Elected to the Royal Society of Canada – Academy of Science
*2023 Technology Venture Ambassador
*2023 Rosalind Franklin Society and Mary Ann Liebert Inc., the best paper in Stem Cells and Development
*2023 NIH Advisory Committee to the Director Working Group on Novel Alternative Methods to Animal Testing (ACD-WG)
*2023 Vice-president of the Belgrade University Alumni Association
*2022 BIOS Top 50 Academic Life Science Entrepreneurs
*2022 National Academy of Engineering, Chair of Section 2: Bioengineering;
*2021 Lifetime Achievement Award, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society (TERMIS)
*2021 Featured in “Narratives on Discovery”, Rut Charon
*2021 Fellow, International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE)
*2021 Life Sciences Power 50
*2021 Pierre Galletti Award, AIMBE's highest honor
*2020 Order of Karadjordje Star, Serbia’s highest honor
*2020 Featured in “Invincible Women: Conversations with 21 Inspiring and Successful American Immigrants” by Bilha Fisch
*2020 Petit Distinguished Lecture, Georgia Institute if Technology and Emory, Atlanta
*2019 Person of the year in Serbia
*2019 Award of the NCATS-ASPIRE Design Challenge for Biological Assays for Translational Innovation in Pain, Opioid Use Disorder and Overdose (with Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard, Joriene de Nooij and Naveed Tavakol)
*2019 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*2019 HHMI Scientific Review Board
*2019 Innovation and Commercialization Award, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society of the Americas (TERMIS)
*2019 AIChE Rock Stars of Regenerative Engineering
*2019 Shu Chien Achievement Award, Biomedical Engineering Society
*2019 Birnberg Medal, College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University
*2019 Advisory Council of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
*2018 Advisory Council of the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
*2017-2020   Center for Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), Board of Directors; Chair of the Science and Technology Committee
*2017 Robert A. Pritzker Award for 2017, Biomedical Engineering Society
*2017 NIBIB National Advisory Council speaker, NIH, January 24, 2017.
*2017-2018    American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Chair of the College of Fellows
*2017 Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
*2016 - 2017 Chair, College of Fellows, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIBME)
*2016 - 2018    Board of Directors, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
*2016 - 2022    “Cardiac Contractility, Hypertrophy, and Failure” study section, permanent member; resigned effective May 22, 2018 following election to the NIBIB National Advisory Council
*2016 Award of the Materials Research Society of Serbia for Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Material Science and Engineering
*2015 Bioengineering Peer Committee, National Academy of Engineering
*2014 Election to the National Academy of Inventors    
*2014 Election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
*2014 Election to the National Academy of Medicine
*2014 Foreign Policy’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014          
*2013 National Academy of Engineering, Executive Committee, Section for Bioengineering; Fritz J and Dolores H Russ Prize Committee
*2013 Founding Class of the International Fellows of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
* 2012 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
* 2011-2014 Continental Chapter Council (North America) of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society
* 2010 2010 Clemson award of the Society of Biomaterials “for significant contributions to the literature on the science or technology of biomaterials”
* 2010 Finalist, The World Technologies Award for Biotechnology
* 2009 - New York Academy of Sciences, elected member
* 2008 Inducted to Hall of Fame, Women in Technology International (one of 5 leaders in science and technology in 2008)
* 2008 - US Section Head, Musculoskeletal Repair & Regeneration Section, Faculty 1000 of Medicine
* 2007 Director’s lecture, NIH, October 17, 2007; the first woman engineer to receive this distinction ([http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=3&s=31])
* 2006 NASA Award for a patent “BMP-2, BMP-12, and BMP-13 Modulate in Vitro Development of Engineered Cartilage”
* 2005 The Association of Orthopedic Research, Switzerland; team award “for the best science in orthopaedics” (with Meinel, Ziechner. Fajardo, and Kaplan)
* 2004 Outstanding Performance Medal, World Congress of In Vitro Biology
* 2004 Space Act Award, NASA, for patent describing bioengineering of anterior cruciate ligaments 
* 2004 Space Act Award, NASA, for patent describing gene transfer of a growth factor to enhance tissue engineering of cartilage
* 2000 - Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
* 1997 Medal of recognition, Centennial of the Serbian Chemical Society, Belgrade YU
* 1987 – 1992 Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Biomass Committee
* 1980 City of Belgrade award for the best PhD thesis in engineering
* 1975 Belgrade Chamber of Commerce award for the best MS thesis in engineering
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Vunjak-Novakovic_Gordana/CV]
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