Alejandra Vargas-Valderrama is currently a 4th year PhD student from the University Paris Sud at the laboratory INSERM U1197 leaded by Dr. Georges Uzan. Her main research project, supervised by Dr. Mitjavila Garcia and Dr. Guenou, focuses on the differentiation of hPSC into endothelial cells via a hemangioblast. Thanks to her PhD project, she participates in the iLite (innovations in Liver tissue engineering) project aiming to create an external bioartificial liver. Her main research areas of interests are related to endothelial development and tissue engineering for the production of external vascularized tissues.