Education

• B.S. Industrial Chemistry. Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. 1989.
• M.S. Polymer Science and Technology. University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. 1994.
• Ph.D. Biomedical Materials. Queen Mary and Westfield College. 1997.

Current research

• Materials for Regenerative Medicine

CURRENT PROJECTS

• Multifunctional hierarchical biomaterials for blood vessel regeneration. (Fronteras de la Ciencia. CONACYT)
• Controlled release of antidiabetic pharmaceuticals by biodegradable polymer nanospheres. (PDCPN. CONACYT)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Chuc-Gamboa, Carolina María Cámara Perera, Fernando Javier Aguilar Ayala, Rossana Faride Vargas-Coronado, Juan Valerio Cauich-Rodríguez, Diana María Escobar-García, Luis Octavio Sánchez-Vargas, Neith Pacheco, Julio San Roman. Antibacterial Behaviour of Chitosan- Sodium Hyaluronate -PEGDE crosslinked scaffolds. Applied Sciences, 11, 3: 1267, (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/app11031267 .
• Mauricio Gómez-Hernández, Cecilia Mónica Rodríguez-García, Leticia Peraza-Echeverría, Sergio Rubén Peraza-Sánchez, Luis Wiliunfo Torres-Tapia, Daisy Pérez-Brito, Rossana Faride Vargas-Coronado, Juan Valerio Cauich-Rodríguez. Antifungal activity screening of beach-cast seaweeds collected in Yucatan, Mexico. Journal of Applied Phycology, 33: 1229, (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-021-02384-5 .
• Ena Deyla Bolaina Lorenzo, Jose Manuel Cervantes Uc, Juan Valerio Cauich Rodríguez, Alejandro Avila Ortega, Juan Antonio Juárez Moreno. Effect of barium sulfate surface treatments on the mechanical properties of acrylic bone cements. Polymer Bulletin, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-020-03407-w .
• Rocio Torres-García, Jaime Flores-Estrada, Juan V. Cauich-Rodríguez, Mario Flores-Reyes, and Miriam V. Flores-Merino. Design of a polyacrylamide and gelatin hydrogel as a synthetic extracellular matrix. International Journal of Polymeric Materials and Polymeric Biomaterials, (2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/00914037.2020.1825082 .
• Jorge Xool-Tamayo; Omar Castillo-Cruz; Rossana Faride Vargas-Coronado; José Manuel Cervantes-Uc; Teresa Hernández-Sotomayor; Juan V Cauich-Rodríguez. Non inflammatory properties of ex situ thiol-based copper chelates. Materials Letters, 282: 128657, (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.128657 .