A Better Graft: How A Mexican-American Biomedical Researcher Is Making Her Mark
*Yes! Anytime I see a story about a Latin@ kicking serious butt (especially in STEM), I’ll post it. Go Maria! (Oh, and ¡Viva Chihuahua!) VL
By Bill Vourvoulias, Fox News Latino
María Yañez, 30, is in charge of the printer at the Printed Biomaterial Laboratory at the University of Texas at El Paso. That doesn’t sound like much of a responsibility until you realize that the lab’s work largely revolves around the 3D inkjet printer.
“My parents are proud of me,” she told Fox News Latino.
And well they should be. A native of Chihuahua in northern Mexico, Yañez came to UTEP for her doctoral studies and has been a researcher in the Printed Biomaterial Lab for more than three years now. She specializes in creating biomedical tissue—for skin grafts, for instance—having mastered the small, little larger than a cereal box, 3D inkjet printer that she has modified to the lab’s needs.
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[Photo courtesy of Printed Biomaterials Lab, Metallurgical and Materials Department, University of Texas at El Paso]