Nina Tandon: Caring For Engineered Tissue

 

Nina Tandon studies electrical signaling in the context of tissue engineering, with the goal of creating “spare parts” for human implantation and/or disease models. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Cooper Union, Nina worked on an electronic nose used to “smell” lung cancer as a Fulbright scholar in Rome. She studied electrical stimulation for cardiac tissue engineering at MIT and Columbia, and now continues her research on electrical stimulation for broader tissue-engineering applications.

"I love pointing out to my students that the cable equations we use to analyze transmission along nerves are the same ones developed for the transatlantic cable." Nina Tandon