Juan Grano De Oro Fernandez Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Working in the enhancement of the FDA-registered and patented ORASIS device, a game-changer in microsurgery procedures.Job Responsibilities:-Usage of SOLIDWORKS and other various CAD softwares to optimize the microfluidics and overall working mechanism of the appliance.-Performance of Fluid behavior studies to optimize the suction and irrigation features of ORASIS.-Regular negotiations and cold-calling discussions with multiple medical device manufacturers to mass produce and commercialize the device.

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Academic Representative for the MSc in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Program

Instituto De Química Orgánica General

Conducted research protocols to obtain a non-toxic alternative for drug delivery in chemotherapy in the project "Smart Polymeric Materials in Cancer Therapy".Usage of chemistry protocols to produce drug-delivery methods that allow to induce drugs in the tumoral area to face tumor biomarkers. We are developing smart polymeric materials with molecules prone to be hydrolyzed by the heparanase enzyme. Once they are inserted in the patient, they allow to relapse drugs gradually. The main materials used in this context are functionalized chitosam polymeric hydrogels. The aim is to obtain a non-toxic alternative for chemotherapy by hydrogels usage

Instituto De Química Medica

Working together with Dr.Fernando Herranz Rabanal and pre-doctoral researcher Aitor Herraiz, I am a part of the Nanomedicine and Molecular Imaging research group to perform my Bachelor’s Thesis

College Park, Maryland, United States

Under the supervision of Dr. Katharina Maisel and PhD candidate Mayowa Amosu, I helped to build and program an affordable version of a tissue dissociator machine developed by our lab. My task was to improve and clean from bugs the Arduino code that would make our device work efficiently and in both an automatic and manual way (up to the user). After the code was robust and effective enough to make the device work, I used the working device to perform single-cell suspensions of mice liver, lungs, kidneys and heart. By running single-cell suspensions manually and with the use of the dissociator, I was able to prove its effectiveness and it's great advantages for the usage of other future labs. The work performed in this experience was published in a peer-reviewed journal, which can be accessed in the following link: https://app.jove.com/t/65866

College Park, Maryland, United States

Study of the histology of the Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) disease through the meticulous analysis of microscopic images of three mouse lungs' tissue treatment groups. Through the separate analysis of these control groups (control group, CpG 5ug, CpG 10ug), we determined the inflamamation %, tumor size and number of tumors found in each of the analyzed images. The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of adjuvant immunotherapies (in this case, by inducing CpG to the diseased mice) with or without simultaneous checkpoint inhibition as immune activating treatments for LAM. Therefore, the slide image analysis software QuPath allowed us to analyze the target images and conclude if the CpG treatment was being as effective as thought.The work of this research has been recently published in a peer-reviewed journal, which can be accessed in the following link: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1165/rcmb.2023-0410OC

College Park, Maryland, United States

During my Spring 2022 semester, I performed a project under the supervision of Dr. Ryan Sochol and Dr. Sunandita Sarker to create a 3D printed microfluidic circuitry incorporated within a 3D-printed soft robot, all in a single print run, and with the purpose to leverage novel 3D fluidic circuit elements (like fluidic diodes, closed transistors, and open transistors with tunable pressure-gain functionalities) to operate in response to fluidic analogs of conventional electronic signals. To design our previously mentioned prototype, we used our CAD knowledge to create several drafts in SOLIDWORKS, with the aim of improving its stability and obtaining a resistant and compatible design to 3D print it. Finally, we presented in front of all the lab our results and our progress along the semester, especially for the CAD design of the turtle flippers, the part that required the most skills and the one that would determine the degree of success of the project.

Master Of Science - Ms, Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering, Distinction

Activities and Societies: MedTech Committee - Technology in Healthcare Conference Executive ("Opportunities Award" by Students Union UCL).

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Student Representatives Association, Student Mentor, BEST-UC3MBachelor's Thesis: "Development of Magnetic.

Bachelor Of Science-Bs, Biomedical/Medical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Maisel Lab, BAM Lab, Engineers Without Borders, Bachata and Salsa Club, Men's Lacrosse Club, Men's Ultimate Club

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Student Council (International Students Representative), Trivia Club, Tennis Club, Cross Country Club.