Mario Moisés Alvarez
Tecnológico de Monterrey,
Mexico
Mario Moisés Alvarez is a Rómulo Garza Insignia Professor at the Centro de Biotecnología-FEMSA and the School of Engineering and Sciences (Mechatronics Department) at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Monterrey, México. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores, where he has held the highest distinction (Nivel III) since 2014, and a Permanent Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.
He is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of FORMA Foods, a start-up dedicated to the design and fabrication of plant-based and cultured meat.
Trained as a Biochemical Engineer, he earned his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from Rutgers University in 2001. He gained postdoctoral experience in both industry and academia, conducting research and technology development at the Pharmaceutical Institute of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (2001–2002) and serving as a Visiting Professor in the Khademhosseini Lab at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division (2014–2016).
Dr. Alvarez’s technical expertise spans biotechnology and bioengineering, with contributions in biofabrication, bioreactor engineering, biomaterials engineering, mixing, and microfluidics. He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed research articles in prestigious journals such as Biomaterials, Advanced Materials, PNAS, Nature Reviews Materials, Materials Horizons, ACS Nano, Biofabrication, ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, Scientific Reports, Advanced Healthcare Materials, Acta Biomaterialia, Lab on a Chip, and Biotechnology and Bioengineering. His work has been cited more than 11,000 times, with an h-index of 52. He is also an active technology developer, holding two USPTO patents and twelve Mexican patents.
