Growing up in Madrid, Jose Ayuso’s parents, both bank clerks, often puzzled over how he acquired such a deep passion for all things science. But his thirst for science and mathematics was insatiable, transcending disciplinary lines.
At Spain’s Autonomous University of Madrid, he earned a biochemistry degree, and stayed to pursue a master’s in biophysics. Finally, Ayuso earned a doctorate in biomedical engineering at the University of Zaragoza.
“I like the predictive nature of math,” says Ayuso. “I wanted to work in a field where you could bring those equations to the table. That’s biophysics or biomedical engineering.”
It’s not surprising that, with that perspective, Ayuso wound up at the Morgridge Institute, a global leader in cross-cutting, collaborative research. As a promising Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow and later as a scientist working with researchers David Beebe, Melissa Skala and Kari Wisinsksi, Ayuso spent more than five years at Morgridge. They worked to generate advanced microfluidic cell culture platforms to recreate the architecture of tumors.
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