Biomedical Engineering

• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
• National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD)
• Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

• Columbia Engineering Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, 2024
• Duke University Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2022
• Duke University Biomedical Engineering Departmental Service Award, 2021
• Duke University Biomedical Engineering TA of the Year, 2018
• Theo C. Pilkington Memorial Award, 2016

• Undergraduate Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2024-
• Lecturer in the Discipline of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2022-

• PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
• MS, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
• BSE, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

• Orthopaedic Research Society
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers

• Van C. Mow Medal (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) 2020
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2018
• Fellow of International Orthopaedic Research (International Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies - ICORS) 2018
• Fellow of The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) 2017
• Neer Award for Basic Science Research in the Shoulder (American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society) 2009
• Kappa Delta Young Investigator Award (American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) 2009
• Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Medal (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) 2007
• Neer Award for Basic Science Research in the Shoulder (American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society) 1999
• Hughston Award for Basic Science Research (American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine) 1999

• Robert E. Carroll and Jane Chace Carroll Professor, Columbia University, 2017-
• Professor of Biomechanics (in Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering) (with tenure), Columbia University (New York, NY)
• Vice Chair for Basic Research, Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia University, 2015-
• Director of Robert Carroll & Jane Chace Carroll Laboratories, Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia University (New York, NY), 2015-
• Professor of Biomechanics (in Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineeri

• PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
• MS, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
• BS, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University

• Undergraduate Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2020 - present
• Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine), Columbia University, 2019 - present
• Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2018 - present
• Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2012 - 2018
• Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2003 - 2012

• Biomedical Engineering Society
• Society for Biomaterials
• American Society for Cell Biology

• AIMBE Fellow, 2023
• BMES-SPRBM, Rising Star, 2011

• PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• BS, Physics, Washington University in St. Louis
• BS, Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

• 2014-present Editor-in-Chief, Biomaterials
• 2014-present, Samuel Y Sheng Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
• 2015-present Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University
• 2006-2014 Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Professor, Division of Experimental Surgery, School of Medicine, Duke University
• 2008-2011 Distinguished Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore
• 1999-2006 Principal Investigator, Division of Johns Hopkins in Singapore
• 1998-2006 Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• 1998-2004 Program Director and Technical Advisor to Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore 1991-1998 Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• 1990-2005 Director of Master Program in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• 1986-1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

• Society for Biomaterials
• Biomedical Engineering Society

• 2024, Elected Member (Inaugural Class) of Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering
• 2024, IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award
• 2023, IEEE-EMBS Career Achievement Award
• 2022, Chandra P Sharma Award, Society of Biomaterials, Artificial Organs, India
• 2022, Founders Award of Society for Biomaterials
• 2022, IEEE-EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) Technical Achievement Award
• 2020, CAB Global Biomaterials Leadership Award
• 2019, Elected Member of the International Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
• 2020, Elected Member of the USA National Academy of Medicine
• 2017, Lifetime Achievement Award of Chinese American Society of Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology
• 2016, Chinese Academy of Sciences President Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists
• 2014-present, Editor-in-Chief: Biomaterials
• 2014, Elected Member of the USA National Academy of Inventors
• 2014, International Journal of Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award
• 2014, Samuel Y. Sheng Professorship of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
• 2013, Elected Member of the USA National Academy of Engineering
• 2012, Clemson Award for Applied Research, Society for Biomaterials
• 2010, Stansell Family Distinguished Research Award
• 2007, James B. Duke Professorship of Biomedical Engineering
• 1998, Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• 1997, CRS-Cygnus Recognition Award
• 1996-2001, Capsugel Award on Innovative Aspects of Controlled Release Research, CRS
• 1996, CRS-3M Pharmaceuticals Recognition Award
• 1995, The Chinese-American Chemical Society Award for Recognition of Pioneering Contributions in Polymer Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering
• 1994, Young Investigator Research Achievement Award of Controlled Release Society
• 1994, Excellence in Guidance of Graduate Student Research, Controlled Release Society
• 1993, CRS-Proctor & Gamble Recognition Award

• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
• B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara

• Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2024-

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Junior Fellow
•    Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
•    Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)     
•    Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
•    American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR)

• F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Grant Award, 2023
• T32 Training Grant Postdoctoral Fellowship from NHLBI, 2023
• Colburn Best Dissertation 2023 Award, University of Delaware
• NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience Award, 2022
• Junior Fellow, ISMRM, 2022
• F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Grant Award, 2020

• PhD, Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware
• MBA, University of Delaware

• 2019- Director, Center for Dental and Craniofacial Research, Columbia University
• 2019- Professor of Dental Medicine, Columbia University
• 2018- Affiliate member, Mortimer B Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University
• 2017- University Professor, Columbia University
• 2016 - Honorary Professor, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
• 2015- Faculty, Center for Human Development, Columbia University
• 2014- Faculty, Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University
• 2011- The Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
• 2011- Professor of Medical Sciences, Columbia University
• 2011 Biomedical Engineering track of Mayo Graduate Faculty, Mayo Clinic
• 2005- Professor, Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
• 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, Cambridge MA
• 2009- Honorary Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Belgrade
• 2009- Visiting Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
• 2009- Co-director, Craniofacial Regeneration Center, Columbia University
• 2002- Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering. Tufts University, Medford MA
• 1994- Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University
• 1993–99 Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Belgrade University, Yugoslavia
• 1993- Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Belgrade University, Yugoslavia
• 1993- Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge MA
• 1992 Visiting Scientist, Harvard – MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
• 1989 Visiting professor, University of Wageningen, Netherlands

• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Fellow
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
• Biomaterials Research Society
• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), Fellow
• International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE), Fellow
• International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)
• Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS)
• Society For Biomaterials (SFB)
• Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society (TERMIS), officer

• 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 Election to the National Academy of Engineering
• 2012 Election to the Academia Europea
• 2012 Election to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• 2012 Election to the Serbian National Academy of Engineering
• 2012 Fellow, Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
• 2010 Clemson award of the Society of Biomaterials “for significant contributions to the literature on the science or technology of biomaterials”
• 2009 Election to the New York Academy of Sciences
• 2008 Hall of Fame, Women in Technology International (one of 5 leaders in science and technology in 2008)
• 2008- 2010    Chair, NIH Study section on Biomaterials and Biointerfaces (BMBI)
• 2008 US Section Head, Musculoskeletal Repair & Regeneration Section, Faculty 1000 of Medicine
• 2007 NIH Director’s lecture, the first woman engineer to receive this distinction
• 2004 Outstanding Performance Medal, World Congress of in vitro Biology
• 2004-2006 Three Space Act Awards, NASA, for patents
• 2000 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Fellow
• 1997 Medal of recognition, Centennial of the Serbian Chemical Society, Belgrade YU
• 1996 – 97 Space study of cartilage tissue engineering aboard “Mir”, in collaboration with NASA Johnson Space Center (co-lead of the 13-member team, with LE Freed); the longest cell experiment ever conducted in space; study reported in PNAS)

• Fulbright Fellowship, MIT, Cambridge MA
• PhD, Chemical Engineering, Belgrade University
• MS, Chemical Engineering, Belgrade Universit\
• BS, Chemical Engineering, Belgrade University
• Doctorate in engineering honoris causa, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Doctorate in Science Honoris Causa, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

• Herbert Irving Cancer Center Emerging Leader Development Program, 2023
• Cell Press: Matter Feature, 35+1 under 35 in Materials Science, 2023
• Justice Equity Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) Champion, Stanford University, 2022
• Rising Stars in Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2021
• Soft Matter for All Early Career Speaker, Princeton University & University of Delaware, 2021
• UNITE Featured Speaker, Biomedical Engineering Society, 2021
• PMSE Future Faculty Scholar, American Chemical Society, 2021
• Rising Stars in Engineering in Health, Columbia University, 2020
• Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32), National Cancer Institute 2019
• Siebel Scholar, Siebel Foundation, 2018
• Sloan University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring Scholar, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2016
• Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2012
• Lemelson Engineering Presidential Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
• Dean’s Diversity Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
• Science, Technology and Research Scholar, Yale University, 2012

• Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2023-

• PhD, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• BS, Biomedical Engineering, Yale University

• Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Society for Biomaterials
• Biomedical Engineering Society
• American Chemical Society, Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering
• LatinXinBME
   

• Acoustical Society of America
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
• American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
• IEEE Society for Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control
• IEEE in Engineering in Medicine and Biology

• National Academy of Medicine, 2021
• Bodossaki Foundation Award of Scientific Excellence in Applied Science, 2017
• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2017
• Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2014
• Nagy Award by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering – NIH, 2007
• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2007
• New Investigator Award, American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2006
• Young Investigator Award, Acoustical Society of America, 2002 

• Professor of Neurological Surgery, 2024-
• Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016–
• Professor of Radiology, Columbia University, 2014-
• Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2014-
• Graduate Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2015–2020
• Associate Professor of Radiology, Columbia University, 2009–2013
• Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2009–2013
• Assistant Professor of Radiology, Columbia University, 2003–2009
• Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2003–2009
• Instructor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 2002-2003  

• Co-Founder, Rover Diagnostics and Rover Labs, 2019-Present
• Co-Founder, Harlem Biospace (biotech incubator started with NYC’s Mayor’s Office), 2013
• Co-Founder and Chair of Scientific Advisory Board, Claros Diagnostics (sold in 2011 to OPKO Health, NYSE: OPK), 2004-2011

• Inducted Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2016
• Thiele Lectureship Award, University of Notre Dame, 2015
• Kjeldgaard International Lectures in Molecular Biology, Aarhus Denmark, 2013
• Runner-up, Wall Street Journal Innovation Award in Medical Devices, 2011
• NASA Launch, one of ten innovators in human health and sustainability, 2010
• MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35, 2010
• Invited attendee, National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, UC Irvine
• Wallace H. Coulter Early Career Award Phase II, 2008
• NSF CAREER Award, 2008
• Invited participant, National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering, Seattle, 2007
• Walter H. Coulter Early Career Award, 2006
• American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant, 2006
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship (postdoc), 2004-2005
• Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2002
• Delegate, International Achievement Summit, Dublin, Ireland (1 of 200 graduate students in the world from all disciplines chosen to attend), 2002
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship, 1997-2002
• National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship B, 1999-2001
• National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarship A, 1997-1999
• Dean’s Silver Medal in Science, University of Alberta, 1997
• Canada Scholar, 1993-1997

• Vice Provost for the Fourth Purpose and Strategic Impact, Columbia University, 2022-Present
• Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016-Present
• Faculty Co-Director of Entrepreneurship, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Columbia University, 2014-2023
• Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2011-2016
• Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2005-2011