Brian Aguado is currently an assistant professor of bioengineering at University of California San Diego where his laboratory research focused on studying sex differences in cardiovascular disease using biomaterial technologies. Aguado earned his bachelor’s degree in biomechanical engineering from Stanford University and his master’s and doctorate 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 postdoc fellowship in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. Aguado received the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), the American Heart Association Career Development Award, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science Diversity Leadership Award, and the National Institute of Health’s New Innovator Award (DP2) to support his sex differences research. He co-founded LatinXinBME a non-profit organization dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive community of Latinx biomedical engineers and scientists to support each other personally and professionally through their careers. For his efforts he was named one of the 100 Most Inspiring Latinx Scientists in America by Cell Press and received the Biomaterials Diversity Award for Young Investigator from the Biomaterials Journal and the GEMINI Faculty Mentor Award from the Institute for Engineering in Medicine.