Education

• B.S. Biological Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. 2003.
• M.S. Biochemistry. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2006.
• Ph.D. Experimental Biology. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2013.
• Post-Doctorate. Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2016.

Current research

• Materials for Regenerative Medicine

ONGOING RESEARCH

• Synthesis and characterization of hydrogels based on interpenetrated collagen-polyurethane-polysaccharide networks for applications in tissue engineering. (CONACYT)
• Development and characterization of skin substitutes based on marine biopolymers.
• Obtaining skin and bone substitutes through decellularization processes.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Aguilar-Perez D, Vargas-Coronado R, Cervantes-Uc JM, Rodriguez-Fuentes N, Aparicio C, Covarrubias C, Alvarez-Perez M, Garcia-Perez V, Martinez-Hernandez M, Cauich-Rodriguez JV. . Antibacterial activity of a glass ionomer cement doped with copper nanoparticles. Dent Mater J., 39: 389-396, (2020). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32213765/ .
• Martín-Pat GE, Rodriguez-Fuentes N, Cervantes-Uc JM, Rosales-Ibáñez R, Carrillo-Escalante HJ, Ku-Gonzalez AF, Avila-Ortega A, Hernandez-Sanchez F. Effect of different exposure times on physicochemical, mechanical and biological properties of PGS scaffolds treated with plasma of iodine-doped polypyrrole. J Biomater Appl., 35: 485-499, (2020). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32659135/ .
• Belman-Flores CE, Herrera-Kao W, Vargas-Coronado RF, May-Pat A, Oliva AI, Rodríguez-Fuentes N, Vázquez-Torres H, Cauich-Rodríguez JV, Cervantes-Uc JM. Synthesis and characterization of pH sensitive hydrogel nanoparticles based on poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide-co-methacrylic acid). J Mater Sci Mater Med, 31: 61, (2020). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32696259/ .
• Irving Fernández-Cervantes, Nayeli Rodríguez-Fuentes⁎, Lorena V. León-Deniz, Luz E. Alcántara Quintana, José M. Cervantes-Uc, Wilberth A. Herrera Kao, José D. Cerón-Espinosa, Juan V. Cauich-Rodríguez, Victor M. Castaño-Meneses. Cell-free scaffold from jellyfish Cassiopea andromeda (Cnidaria; Scyphozoa) for skin tissue engineering. Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl., 111: 110748, (2020). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32279751/ .
• Alcantara Quintana Luz Eugenia*, Garcia Ruiz Gilberto F, Terán Figueroa Yolanda, Rodríguez-Fuentes Nayeli, Benítez Arvizu Gamaliel. Expression of TNF-Α and IL-1β Messenger RNA in Stem Cells of Normotrophic and Hypertrophic Scars. Journal of Embryology & Stem Cell Research, 3: 1-12, (2019). https://medwinpublishers.com/JES/JES16000133.pdf .

RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2016-2018. President. Network of Biomaterials and Engineering of Organs and Tissues, Red BIOT. RED BIOT A.C.
• 2016-2017. President. Student Chapter, Sociedad Mexicana de Materiales. IIM-SMM.