Anjelica L. Gonzalez, newly appointed as the Donna L. Dubinsky Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, develops biomaterials as tools for investigating human immunological disease, with a particular focus on inflammation.
Anjelica L. GonzalezGonzalez recently created two artificial tissues, a humanized vessel and a model of the body’s extracellular matrix. Her work with these tissues contributes to understanding of an array of diseases and disorders associated with inflammation, including arthritis, diabetes, cancer, and fibrosis; additionally, these biomaterials have also been used to create therapeutics for wound healing.
The Yale professor received her B.S. from Utah State University and her Ph.D. in structural and computational biology from Baylor College of Medicine. After a postdoctoral fellowship in the Leukocyte Biology and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Texas Children’s Hospital, Gonzalez worked at Yale for two years as an associate research scientist before she joined the biomedical engineering faculty.
Gonzalez has contributed several articles and chapters to edited volumes and journals. Her awards include the Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award and the SEAS Dubinsky New Initiative Award. In 2012, she was named as one of NBC’s “10 Latino Innovators.” Her efforts in education at Yale were recognized with the 2013-2014 Provost’s Teaching Prize.
