Dr. Brian Aguado is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego, where his laboratory research is focused on studying sex differences in cardiovascular disease using biomaterial technologies. Dr. Aguado completed his BS degree in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford University and his MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University. He also obtained his certificate in Management for Scientists and Engineers from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Aguado has received numerous awards to fund his research, including the NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award, the American Heart Association Career Development Award, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award, and the NIH DP2 New Innovator Award. Dr. Aguado co-founded the nonprofit organization LatinXinBME, a grassroots virtual mentoring group of over 550 Latinx biomedical engineers dedicated to building a community that supports each other personally and professionally through their careers. For his mentoring and teaching efforts, he was named one of the 100 Most Inspiring Latinx Scientists in America by Cell Press and received the Society for Biomaterials Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, the Biomaterials Young Investigator Award from the Biomaterials journal, the Bioengineering Teacher of the Year Award from the Jacobs School of Engineering, and the GEMINI Faculty Mentor Award from the UCSD Institute for Engineering in Medicine.