Bioengineering and Medical Devices Unit

Develops and optimizes bioengineering platforms to produce new commercial products focused on the early detection and prevention of metabolic disorders associated with obesity.

What does this unit do?

1. Bioengineering of processes to identify and produce bioactives.
2. Development of medical devices for early detection and monitoring.
3. Engineering of delivery systems and detection of molecules.
4. Generation of clinical interventions that positively impact society.

Products and services developed by the unit

Selection of novel biomolecules associated with metabolic diseases.
Medical devices (based on new technologies, user-friendly and accessible) for the early detection and monitoring of metabolic diseases.
Real-time detection sensors of biomarkers associated with metabolic diseases.
Improvement of the performance of existing platforms for the early detection and monitoring of metabolic diseases.
Prevention and treatment strategies for metabolic diseases and their complications.
Strategies for the prediction and monitoring of risk of metabolic diseases.

We aim to impact society through the development of sensing devices and conducting early measurements in populations at risk of obesity and its related diseases.

- Dr. Omar Lozano García - Unit Leader

Meet the researchers

* About Research Professors: They are principal investigators (PIs) who dedicate 75% of their time to research and 25% of their time to faculty (teaching) activities in the school they are assigned at Tecnológico de Monterrey (in IOR’s case, either the School of Medicine, School of Engineering, or School of Government).

Dr. Omar Lozano García
Unit leader. Research Professor

Design of advanced materials for drug delivery systems and probes, preclinical studies, nanosafety, nano-bio-interactions.
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Dr. Marco Antonio Rito Palomares
Director of the Institute for Obesity Research

Development of early detection technologies, drug delivery systems and strategies based on aqueous two-phase systems.
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Dr. Jorge Alejandro Benavides Lozano
Research Professor

Bioengineering, Bioprocesses, Bioproduct formulation, Bioactive discovery and characterization, Synthetic biology.
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Dr. Karla Patricia Mayolo Deloisa
Research Professor

Specialist in nanoparticle formulation, protein modification and bioprocesses.
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Dr. Mirna Alejandra González González
Research Professor

Development of flexible bioengineering platforms for biomedical applications.
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Dr. David Contreras Loya
Research Professor

PhD in Health Policy. Specializes in health economics, management and organizations, and quantitative methods for causal inference.
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Dr. Pedro Javier Salas Ambrosio
Research Professor

Synthesis of biodegradable, biocompatible, and biomimetic polymers, Modified-release systems (nanometric, self-assembling, and hydrogel systems), Agents with dual-action properties: antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory.

Postdoctorals researchers

Dr. Ángel León Buitimea
- Drug Discovery

Dr. Laura Catalina Duque Ossa
- Smart hydrogels for controlled obesity treatments

Dr. Roberto Rodríguez Moncayo
- Microfluidics
- Sample preparation
- Functional assays
- Immunoassays
- In vitro diagnostics

Dr. Claudia Bernardette Plata Hipolito
- Experimental and translational immunology
- Biomarker detection and development of immunodiagnostic technologies
- Immunometabolism in gestational diabetes

Dr. Nidya Velasco Roldán
- Social and economic determinants of health across the life course
- Intersectionality and public health
- Demography of aging

Latest Works and Publications of the Institute