Trujillo-de Santiago, Grissel

Grissel Trujillo de Santiago is a Professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences at Tecnológico de Monterrey. She is CSO and scientific founder of FORMA Foods. She was trained as a Chemistry & Pharmacy Biologist at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (summa cum laude); she obtained her MSc degree in Biotechnology (summa cum laude), and her PhD degree in Biotechnology from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Dr. Trujillo de Santiago conducted research in Material Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Naples, Italy) during her PhD program. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dr. Khademhosseini's Lab in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division (2014-2016) and the Microsystems Technology Laboratories at MIT. Dr. Trujillo is member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico (level 2). She has published more than 70 papers, has been granted with a Mexican patent and has 6 more patent-pending technologies, including 3D chaotic printing. Her work has been cited more than 4800 times, and she has an H-index of 26 (by October 2023). She has graduated 5 Ph.D., and 14 M.Sc. students. She has been a recipient of several awards, including the For Women in Science Fellowship from the L'Oreal-UNESCO-AMC-CONACyT foundation in 2019, the "Professional Development Award" by the International Society for biofabrication, the award for Innovation in Bionanotechnology by CINVESTAV and Neolpharma, the Romulo Garza for Research that leads to entrepreneurship, was named "Distinguished Citizen" by her hometown, Matamoros Coah., and is member of the "Distinguished Circle of Faculty Members" of the School of Engineering and Sciences. Trujillo is Topic editor at ACS Materials Letters and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the United Nations University (Latin America and the Caribbean programme). Her main area of interest and expertise is bioprinting, biofabrication, and materials engineering for Tissue Engineering applications. Dr. Trujillo de Santiago research is currently focused on the development of novel platform-technologies based in chaos to produce multilayered complex 3D micro-structured living tissues.