Dr. Barros is a Terasaki Fellow in the Department of Biomaterials at Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) – a designed institution to invent and foster practical solutions that restore or enhance the health of individuals, where he lead a research team aimed at developing organ-on-a-chip platforms, 3D bioprinted tissues, biomaterial-based approaches for drug delivery, and understanding mechanisms of metastasis, progression and therapy resistance in solid tumors.