Dr. Alex Almarza Promoted to Full Professor

We are excited to share the good news that Dr. Alejandro (Alex) Almarza has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh in the Departments of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences and Bioengineering. Alex joined the MSRC in 2005 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2008, he became an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Oral and Craniofacial Sciences and Associate Professor in 2014. Alex has focused on tissue engineering and regenerative therapies for more than 15 years and has developed approaches for both soft and hard musculoskeletal tissues. He developed an approach toward regeneration of the mandibular condyle cartilage of the TMJ and was the first to publish a regenerative therapy for the mandibular condylar cartilage in a large animal model.