Global Speaker Series: Juan Melero-Martin, PhD – Harvard Medical School

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The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians.

Medicine by Design, in partnership with the McEwen Stem Cell Institute, is pleased to welcome Juan Melero-Martin, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

The title of this talk will be, “Bioengineering drug-secreting vascular networks from pluripotent stem cells”

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More About Juan Melero-Martin:

Professor Melero-Martin graduated in Chemical Engineering from the University of Seville, Spain, in 1998. After working three years in industry, he went on to earn a PhD in Biochemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK, in 2005. He then trained as a post-doctoral fellow in the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. He joined the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2008. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and the inaugural incumbent of an endowed Chair in Cardiac Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Professor Melero-Martin’s research is focused on how to build vascular networks and vascularize tissues. His laboratory is a reference in human blood-derived circulating endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFCs) and has contributed multiple original papers on various aspects of ECFC biology. His group has developed novel approaches to bioengineer vascular networks and has shown that bioengineered vascular networks can be generally used to harness the regenerative potential of other stem cells. In addition, his group developed a model that uses genetically engineered blood vessels to achieve the controlled release of therapeutic proteins in vivo.

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