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Luis Alvarez, PhD

1997 HERTZ FELLOW

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Theradaptive

MAKING HISTORY

Luis Alvarez is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Theradaptive and developed the concept for targeted regeneration platform during and following a combat tour in Iraq where several of his soldiers suffered severe extremity injuries.

Previously, Luis was the co-founding Deputy Director of the Department of Defense Regenerative Medicine Program and led the department’s largest recombinant biologics program through Phase II. Luis was a DARPA Service Chief Fellow and Academy Professor at the United States Military Academy, West Point.

Luis received his PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow.

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bioengineering

Graduate Thesis
Modulating Cell Behavior with Engineered HER-Receptor Ligands

Undergraduate Studies
United States Military Academy at West Point

 

IMPACT STORY

Bone Regeneration for Combat Injuries

Luis Alvarez is making it possible to guide the body to make certain kinds of cells —bone, cartilage, and skin — by presenting appropriate protein signals.

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IMPACT STORY

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