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These 24 Americans are changing the world - and they're all under 40

The World Economic Forum recently announced its 2016 class of Young Global Leaders - people under the age of 40 who are changing the world - and 24 of the 121 are American. This year's Young Global Leaders class includes leaders from an array of backgrounds.

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DECEMBER 6 - NINA TANDON

Nina Tandon, CEO and cofounder of EpiBone, is revolutionizing medicine. Her company is the first in the world to use a patient’s stem cells to grow human bone that can then be used to repair bone defects like bone loss.

Ideally, these bones can be grown to the exact shape and size needed and are easily implanted into the body because they are made from the patient’s own cells. Tandon was named a TED senior fellow last year and she's also one of Business Insider’s “40 under 40: People to watch in 2015.”

Thinking Ahead: New York City Bioscience Needs a Tugboat

Nina Tandon is CEO and co-founder of NYC-based bioscience company EpiBone. As the world's first company that grows living human bones from your own cells for skeletal reconstruction, it is paving the way for the personalized medicine.

In our latest Thinking Ahead post, Nina shares her passion for New York and  what more can be done to transform the city into a true hub for the life sciences.

Imagine using your own stem cells to "grow your own bone" for skeletal reconstruction. That's exactly what startup EpiBone is doing -- they take a scan of a patient’s bone defect and use the patient’s own stem cells to engineer an anatomically precise bone graft that has no risk of immune rejection: http://youtu.be/3_lk4Q-2x8I.