Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Arkansas
Ishita Tandon is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Her research involves developing multiscale in vitro and in vivo models of heart valves aimed at studying the early detection and monitoring of calcific aortic valve disease. She has received the SEC Emerging Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship and the University of Arkansas Doctoral Academy Fellowship along with multiple other honors and travel grants. She has also published 13 peer-reviewed articles, 2 book chapters, and given over 20 conference presentations including an invited talk. Ishita served as the finance chair of the Graduate Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and was the co-founder and president of the Biomedical Engineering Department Graduate Students’ Organization. Her career objective is to pursue translational biomedical research in academia. Her leadership goal is to inspire and uplift women who lack opportunities for education, self-development, growth, and leadership.