Grissel Trujillo de Santiago, Ph.D.

Dr. Grissel Trujillo de Santiago is a Professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey. She was trained as a Chemistry & Pharmacy Biologist at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (summa cum laude; 2008); she obtained her MSc degree in Biotechnology (summa cum laude) from Tecnológico de Monterrey (2009); and she received her PhD degree in Biotechnology from Tecnológico de Monterrey (2014). Dr. Trujillo de Santiago conducted research in Material Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Naples, Italy) during her PhD program. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dr. Khademhosseini’s Lab in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division (2014-2016) and the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT, where she collaborated in several projects related to biomaterials engineering, bioprinting, tissue engineering, organ-on-chip systems, and point-of-care applications.

Dr. Trujillo is member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico (level 1). She has published 30+ papers in Indexed International Journals and one book chapter, has been awarded with a Mexican patent, and has more than thirty participations in National and International Conferences. She has graduated 6 master-degree students (4 as principal advisor). She was a recipient of the For Women in Science Award from the L’Oreal-UNESCO-AMC-CONACyT foundation in 2019.

Her main area of interest and expertise is the design of biomaterials and biofabrication technologies for Tissue Engineering applications. Dr. Trujillo de Santiago research is currently focused in the development of novel platform-technologies based in chaos to produce multilayered complex 3D micro-structured living tissues.

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