Our Team
Principal Investigator
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Dr. Aguirre obtained his B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. In 2010 he obtained his Ph.D. in Material Science and Tissue Engineering while working in vascular regeneration at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). He subsequently worked at the Salk Institute as a postdoc in 2011, where he made seminal contributions to our understanding of the genetic mechanisms of cell dedifferentiation, cardiac regeneration and human development. In 2015 Dr. Aguirre joined the University of California, San Diego to work on large-scale metabolomics and quantitative biology approaches applied to human cardiac regeneration, development and disease states, and became Assistant Professor in 2017. Dr. Aguirre joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Michigan State University in 2018.
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Aitor Aguirre, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Personnel
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Kristen Ball is a research assistant and laboratory manager for Dr. Aitor Aguirre’s biomedical engineering lab located at the Institute of Quantitative Health Sciences and Engineering. She received her bachelors of science degree from the University of Michigan in April 2018 where she studied biology and philosophy. During her time at the University of Michigan, she did research at UM’s Biological Station on small and large lake limnology as well as at UM’s School of Public Health on fetal development and toxicology. She hopes to focus her future research on developmental biology, trauma and regenerative technology.
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