Alice Perucca

Alice Perucca is a Researcher at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), affiliated with the Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics research group, where she develops advanced bioengineering models to study cellular and tissue-level biological processes.

Her research spans critical interdisciplinary domains:

• Cellular and molecular mechanobiology
• Tumor-stroma interface dynamics
• Microfluidic immunotherapy platforms
• Cancer microenvironment modeling
• Biomedical device development for precision medicine

Perucca's recent work focuses on the MIRO (Micro Immune Response On-chip) platform, which replicates complex tumor-immune interactions to accelerate immunotherapy development. This innovation bridges engineering and immunology by creating physiologically relevant in vitro systems that capture dynamic cellular crosstalk within tumor microenvironments.

As part of IBEC's collaborative ecosystem, she contributes to cross-group initiatives in nanobioengineering and molecular bionics, leveraging the institute's core facilities for microscopy, biomaterials characterization, and high-performance analytics to advance translational cancer research.