Empowering Future Scientists at “El Poder de la Mujer en las Ciencias”

AIRFoundry, Events, News, Outreach, PREM

The BioMaRT Lab participated in the 6th annual El Poder de la Mujer en las Ciencias Symposium at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Our team led interactive workshops for students on Creating RNA Vaccines, featuring hands-on experiments with Lipid Nanoparticles and Microfluidic Devices. We also hosted demonstration tables showcasing how extracellular vesicles (EVs) travel through the extracellular matrix (ECM), among other engaging…

Jesús Jiménez Presents at the Simposio de la Academia de Investigación

Events, News, Outreach

On April 25, 2025, Jesús Jiménez presented his research titled “Mesenchymal Stem Cell Manufacturing: Capturing Extracellular Vesicles as Predictive Tools for Production Yield” at the Simposio de la Academia de Investigación at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. His work introduces a novel approach for real-time monitoring of mesenchymal stem cell cultures by leveraging the adsorption properties of TiO₂-based substrates to…

Karina will join Eli Lilly for COOP experience

News

We’re excited to share that undergraduate student Karina Hernandez Cruz will be joining Eli Lilly and Company for a COOP experience next semester! She will be working at the Lilly del Caribe, Inc. site in Carolina, Puerto Rico, as part of the PR-05 area. Karina will collaborate with the process engineering team on projects focused…

First AIRFoundry Annual Meeting

AIRFoundry, Events, News

Dr. Camilo A. Mora and PhD student María del Carmen Ramos Álamo participated in the first AIRFoundry Annual Meeting. Dr. Mora presented the lab’s latest work titled “Lipid Nanoparticle Design Informed by Tissue-Specific EVs and Fibroblast Activation”, showcasing our ongoing research on extracellular vesicles, biomaterials, and fibroblast activation in tissue-specific environments. We’re proud to be…