Luis joined the faculty at
                                                    Purdue University in
                                                    2016 as an Assistant
                                                    Professor in the Weldon
                                                    School of Biomedical
                                                    Engineering. He is a
                                                    U.S. Army veteran who
                                                    proudly served for 5
                                                    years immediately after
                                                    graduating high school.
                                                    Luis has been trained in
                                                    both engineering and
                                                    chemistry, obtaining a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry from Saint Louis University in St. Louis. Luis received his M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he developed a growth factor release system to use in conjunction with an injectable 3D culture platform for the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells along the osteogenic lineage. Luis received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. His thesis focused on the use of medical imaging systems to characterize the role that the local microenvironment plays on the release profile from in situ forming polymeric drug eluting depots. After graduation Luis received funding through the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Postdoctoral Fellowship where he focused on the developing novel 3D culture platforms for the expansion of primary metastatic human cancer cells for 3D culture in order to elucidate the role of matrix biology on phenotypic transitions and drug resistance.