Manuel Ahumada Escandon

Manuel received his B.Sc. in chemistry at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. In 2016, he completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at the same institution studying solute transport through lipid membranes in the presence of transmembrane proteins. He then joined the group of Drs. Alarcon and Suuronen at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute as a Postdoctoral Fellow. During that time, Manuel was involved in several projects related to the biomaterials and nanotechnology fields. Currently, Manuel holds an appointment as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, in Boston.