Mayolo-Deloisa, Karla Patricia

Master's degree in Biotechnology from the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. In 2012, she earned her PhD in Engineering Sciences with honors from the Tecnologico de Monterrey. She then joined the FEMSA Biotechnology Center as a postdoctoral researcher. From 2015 to 2016, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Since 2017, she has been a Professor-Researcher in the Department of Bioengineering at Tecnologico de Monterrey. Currently, she is an Associate Research Professor in the Bioengineering and Medical Devices Unit at the Institute for Obesity Research. She is a member of the Biotechnology faculty and actively participates in the design of the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral curricula in biotechnology. She has 54 publications in internationally indexed journals with an average impact factor of 4.1. She is the first author in 10 of these publications and the corresponding author in 12. She also has four book chapters, more than 60 presentations at national and international conferences, and an h-index of 18 (Scopus). She collaborates with researchers from the Biotechnology Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona, ¿¿the University of Houston, the University of Chicago, the National University of Rosario in Argentina, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Virginia, the University of Chile, and others. In 2014, she joined the National System of Researchers of Mexico at Level 1, and since 2021, she has been a National Researcher at Level 2. She won the 2021 Mujer Tec Award in the Science category and was recognized for three consecutive years (2021-2023) as an outstanding professor at Tecnologico de Monterrey. In September 2020, she won the prestigious Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie (MSCA) - Tecniospring Industry Fellowship to develop a peptide-based nanodelivery system to combat antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microorganisms, a project she carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). Currently, her research focuses on the design and characterization of polymeric nanoparticles, the design and characterization of transdermal microneedle patches for the delivery of anti-obesogenic molecules, and the development of purification processes for the recovery of high-value biotechnological molecules.