ABOUT

Research

Developing a therapy takes an enormous amount of time and money with some estimates fluctuating between 1.5 to 2.5 Billion USD. I am interested in creating and applying tools that reduce these costs and shorten their development time to increase therapy success rates. Among my research interests are:

1. Drug delivery PKPD
2. High-throughput screening
3. Laboratory automation
4. Data science in the biopharmaceutical industry

Vitae

Currently, I am a Scientist at Vivtex, a high throughput drug formulation and drug delivery company in Cambridge, MA.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in the lab of Horst von Recum. At Case, I specialized in the area of affinity-based drug delivery. You can find a list of my peer reviewed publications in google scholar.

I completed my bachelors in the department of Industrial Biotechnology at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez.

Originally from Juncos, Puerto Rico.

Life

In my free time I enjoy listening to 70’s salsa and riding my bike.