2012
Stephanie Perkins, a Senior majoring in Chemistry at Hood College joins the Alvarez group. Stephanie will join the 3D biomaterials functionalization effort and will focus on MSC culture in 3D scaffolds.
Dr. Gregory Yourek to present his work on bone tissue engineering at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research Spring Research Festival on 9 and 10 May.
2011
Dr. Gregory Yourek joins the Alvarez Group as a Post-doctoral fellow. Greg will lead the Protein Engineering and Biological Interface Design research thrust area.
Eunice Cho, a Master’s candidate at Hood College, joins our Group. Her work will focus on biological interface design of clinical scaffolds to promote mesenchymal progenitor cell survival.
Marisa Mitchell, a Senior at Hood College, joins the Alvarez Group as a research associate. Marisa’s research will focus on protein expression and purification to support functionalization of progenitor cell scaffolds with biologically active coatings.
Luis Alvarez gives invited seminar at the 2011 Life Technologies Global K Innovation Day on biomaterials design for 3-D mesenchymal stem cell culture.
Protein engineering work featured in MIT News, “Turning off cancer’s growth signals” June 8, 2011
Welcome to the Alvarez laboratory homepage. Our work in tissue engineering straddles the interface of stem cell biology and materials science. We seek to understand and apply emerging knowledge in these diverse fields to design cell environments that can regenerate tissue following disease or trauma. Our overarching goal is to address key problems in regenerative medicine by developing approaches to manipulate cells and their environments. We focus on the following research thrust areas: