What I believe
Today’s health system doesn’t care for health: it manages disease. It arrives late, costs too much and leaves too many people out. I spent more than ten years in research labs and came away with a conviction that guides everything I do: science alone creates knowledge; science turned into companies creates impact.
From the lab
I trained as a molecular engineer and did research at UDLAP, INAOE, INP Grenoble and Penn State, on projects ranging from materials for molecular electronics to nanoparticles for drug delivery to the brain, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Research at Penn State.
To the market
My first material was born in a spare room of my apartment: a nanocellulose made from agave bagasse, a byproduct of tequila production. That became Nanoblast. Today that research holds three granted patents with five more pending; a drug-free dressing for chronic wounds now in regulatory review after a 50-patient clinical cohort; and a dermatological cream sold in pharmacies across Mexico.
Nanoblast, COPARMEX Entrepreneur Award 2019.
With Ceiba, I brought the same standard to cosmetics: formulas without ingredients questioned by the evidence, in biodegradable packaging, with part of every sale going to reforest forests and jungles in Latin America.
In 2024, MIT Technology Review named me one of Latin America’s Innovators Under 35.
MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35, LATAM 2024.
What’s next
My focus now is anticipating, not just repairing. At Freyja we develop molecular sensors and computational physiology models to predict health states. At Pleiades Labs we build AI assistants so no one is left out of this revolution just because they don’t live in the tech world: they work over WhatsApp, Telegram and SMS, with no new apps and nothing to learn.
Alongside that, I write about the ethics of what we build: who decides a technology’s risks, and who its design leaves out. I make science videos, because the more specialized science becomes, the further it drifts from people. And I mentor founders building at the intersection of science, technology and art.
Why Prometheus’ Torch?
Prometheus stole fire from the gods to share it with humanity. To me, that torch is knowledge: it is only worth something when it reaches others and makes their lives better. This site is my way of sharing that fire.