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Editorial Advisory Board Profile:
Nina Tandon, PhD, MBA
Co-Founder of EpiBone
As a child, Nina Tandon had a passion for disassembling and rebuilding her vacuum tube TV. Nina’s initial foray into biomedical engineering involved the development of an electronic nose used to “smell” lung cancer. Today, she is a certified yoga instructor, an MBA from Columbia University, and an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union. Nina is also CEO and co-founder of Epibone, the world’s first company to grow living human bones for skeletal reconstruction. As a tissue engineer, Nina’s goal is to create “spare parts” for human implantation/disease models. Named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, Nina was a TEDMED 2014 speaker and is a Senior TED Fellow.