Associate Professor Elena De-Juan-Pardo

Elena De-Juan-Pardo is a Materials Engineer with over 15 years’ experience in developing biomaterials and 3D printing technologies. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, and Group Leader of the Translational 3D Printing Laboratory for Advanced Tissue Engineering (T3mPLATE) at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research.

Elena has worked in three different continents and acquired a wide set of interdisciplinary skills at the interface of engineering, biology and medicine. She is passionate about bringing the latest advances in biomaterials, 3D printing and bioprinting to the clinic for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. She is an internationally recognised expert in a high-resolution 3D printing technique called melt electrowriting (MEW), which she exploits to design personalised scaffolds or templates for heart valves, vascular grafts and other cardiovascular medical devices. Elena is co-Founder and Director of CoraMetix Pty Ltd, a newly established start-up developing a novel biopolymeric heart valve.