Mario Álvarez

Mario Moisés Álvarez is a Principal Investigator of the Alvarez-Trujillo Laboratory and the Director of the Biomedical Engineering Group at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Alvarez has been a Visiting Professor at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology at BWH, Harvard Medical School, and a Visiting Professor at the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interest is focused on the integration of bio-, micro-, and nanotechnologies into tissue, biomedical, and biopharmaceutical engineering applications. His current academic production is mainly focused on bioprinting, biomaterial and tissue engineering, development of organ-on-chip systems, point of care diagnostics, and biopharmaceutical engineering. Professor Álvarez completed an industrial postdoctoral stay at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Technology at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, USA. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University, a M.Sc. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University, a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey, and a B.Sc. in Biochemical Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Alvarez has published over 100+ papers in international journals. He has been granted three US patents and twelve Mexican patents. Álvarez is a permanent member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and a member of the National Research System, where he has been awarded with the highest ranking for Mexican researchers (SNI Level III).