Elena García Gareta .
Position: Principal Investigator – Ramon & Cajal Fellowship.
Elena obtained her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University College London (UCL, London, UK) in 2012. She carried out her post-doctoral research in the UK (The RAFT Institute, UCL, and The Griffin Institute) and Australia (Queensland University of Technology), and since 2015 she has led research into application-specific tissue engineering and biomaterials. Part of her work has resulted in two spin-out companies.
Elena joined the M2BE group in October 2021 with prestigious awards, like the Maria Zambrano Fellowship and currently the Ramon & Cajal Fellowship. Within M2BE, Elena is leading research into novel hydrogels for advanced cancer-on-a-chip models and also working on tissue engineering of bone and skin using bioprinting and biomaterial-led approaches.
Elena has been an Honorary Associate Professor at UCL since 2019 and a Visiting Scholar at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US).
More info about Elena’s contributions and career can be found in the below links.
More info about Elena’s contributions and career can be found in the below links.
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