Mario Moises Alvarez, Ph.D.

Mario Moisés Alvarez is a Rómulo Garza Insignia Professor at Centro de Biotecnología-FEMSA in Tecnologico de Monterrey in Monterrey, México. He is a Biochemical Engineer by training and received a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering in 2001. Mario Alvarez has postdoctoral experience in both Industry and Academia. He conducted research and technology development at the Pharmaceutical Institute at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (2001–2002) and was a Visiting Professor at the Harvard MIT Health Sciences Division in the Khademhosseini Lab (2014–2016).

Mario Alvarez is a senior AIChE member with technical expertise in diverse areas of materials science and engineering, including biotechnology and bioengineering, biofabrication, biomaterials engineering, micro- and nanotechnologies, mixing, and pharmaceutical engineering. He has more than 120 research papers published across these areas in prestige journals, such as Biomaterials, Advanced Materials, PNAS, Nature Review Materials, Materials Horizons, ACS Nano, Biofabrication, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, Scientific Reports, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Acta Biomaterialia, and Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Mario Alvarez is also active in the area of technology development and has been granted two USPO patents and 12 Mexican patents.

At Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mario Alvarez has been a researcher and faculty member for more than 29 years, was the founder and first director of the Centro de Biotecnología FEMSA (2002-2010), and the founder of the Ph.D. Program in Biotechnology.

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