Irene de Lázaro, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Biography
Irene leads the NanoBioengineering for Tissue Reprogramming and Regeneration laboratory. She is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where she is part of the Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC). Before joining NYU, she obtained a 5-year degree in Pharmacy at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain) for which she received a National Award to the Excellence in Academic Performance (Spanish Ministry of Education, 2009), among several other honors and prizes. She then went to complete postgraduate studies in the UK, including an MSc in Drug Delivery and a PhD in Regenerative Medicine, both from the School of Pharmacy at University College London (UCL), advised by Prof. Kostas Kostarelos. Irene conducted postdoctoral training in Regenerative Therapeutics (2015-17) at The University of Manchester (UK) and in Bioengineering (2018-21) at Harvard University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (USA), advised by Prof. David Mooney. She was appointed Research Associate at Harvard and the Wyss in 2021. She has contributed more than 30 publications in high impact journals including Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Science Translational Medicine, ACS Nano and Biomaterials, and secured research funding from Hong Kong University, LaCaixa Foundation, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK.
Awards and honors:
2023 Young Investigator Award, Cells Tissues Organs (Karger Editorial)
2022 Ikerbasque Research Fellow (declined), Basque Foundation for Science
2021 Ramon y Cajal Fellow (declined), Ministry of Science, Government of Spain
2011 National Awards for Excellence in Academic Performance, Spanish Government
2010-12 International Postgraduate Fellowship, LaCaixa Foundation
