Mario Romero-Ortega

Maria Romero-Ortega is the head of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. He served as Cullen Endowed Professor and Director of undergraduate program in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and joint faculty in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Tilman Fertitta J. Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston. His work has been presented in more than 190 publications and focuses on the understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in axon guidance and target recognition and clinical neuromodulation of the peripheral nervous system. Specific areas of interest are spinal cord injury, peripheral nerve gap repair, regenerative peripheral neurointerfaces for the control and feel or robotic prosthetic limbs, and bioelectronics medicine applications.