The Future of Personalized Medicine

Over a million people saw Nina ask a question on the TED stage: could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine? A decade later, her company answers it in the operating room — growing anatomically precise bone from each patient's own stem cells, so the graft is as personal as a fingerprint. This talk traces that arc from idea to implant, and shows where the rest of medicine follows.

Audiences get a clear-eyed tour of the personalization frontier: patient-derived tissues, organs-on-chips replacing animal trials, and care that starts from your cells instead of population averages. For healthcare leaders, Nina connects the science to the operational questions — regulation, reimbursement, and readiness — that decide who benefits first.