Tania graduated as a Physician & Surgeon from the university Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico in 2015, where she was involved in clinical and research-based internships in Rheumatology and Immunology. She co-designed and co-produced an interactive clinical database along with Dr. Eduardo Bucio Reta that has served for the identification of trends in infections, treatments, and patient outcomes during their stay at a cardiac post-surgical intensive care unit.
She achieved her MSc in Nanotechnology and Regenerative Medicine at University College London (UCL), exploring various types of 3D printing technologies to develop a scaffold for ligament tissue engineering. She completed her PhD in regenerative medicine at UCL designing and producing a novel bioactive composite scaffold to induce anterior cruciate ligament regeneration. Her research involved the synthesis of a coating biopolymer, plasma surface modification, the isolation of human ligament cells, the use of a bioreactor for mechanical stimulation and testing the effect of low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) on cellular growth and extracellular matrix deposition.
In 2021, Tania joined the Mouthuy Soft Tissue Engineering group as a postdoctoral researcher in tendon tissue engineering for the humanoid robotic bioreactor project. Her experience includes 3D printing for bioreactor design and production, tissue decellularization, working with a humanoid robotic shoulder for cellular mechanical stimulation, diverse methodologies for cell culture, and the biological characterisation of cells in different culture conditions, including the adaptation of perfusion systems.
She joined Professor Cathy Ye’s Tissue Engineering group in 2025 as a postdoctoral research assistant in bioreactor design. As part of a wider multidisciplinary team funded by BBSRC Engineering Biology Mission Award, her work is to establish a SimCell-based biocatalyst system where an optimised co-culture of SimCells and mammalian cells in a bioreactor aims to reduce the costs of cell culture medium and the amount of waste in the cultured meat production process.
Research Interests
- Tissue engineering
- Bioreactors
- Biomaterials
- Perfusion systems
- Laboratory cultured meat
- Co-culture systems
- SimCells
- Regenerative medicine
Current Projects
Towards sustainable cultured meat production by developing a novel biocatalyst. SimCells for Cultured Meat
