Professor Nohra Elsy Beltrán Vargas is a Biomedical Engineer with Master's and Ph.D. studies in Biomedical Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM).

She joined the Cuajimalpa Campus in September 2010 as a visiting professor and is currently a tenured professor. She is a member of the National System of Researchers, Level I. She is part of the Academic group of Cellular and Tissue Biotechnology of the Division of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Cuajimalpa Campus.

She worked from 2002 to 2010 at Innovamédica as Assistant Director of Research and Development. She worked at the Center of Biotechnology, University of Pittsburgh, PA. USA, in the Artificial Organs Laboratory (1999). She has been a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Monterrey. Winner of the 2008 Intel award for innovative technological development. Author of two national and four international patents, author of the book "Cell culture techniques and tissue engineering", she has published 16 scientific articles and four book chapters, she has presented 55 papers in national and international specialized congresses, and has taught more than 100 courses at undergraduate and graduate level. She has directed 18 undergraduate theses, four master's, and three doctoral theses.

Her research interests are cell and tissue pathophysiology, cell culture and tissue engineering, biomaterials applied to medicine, ischemia biomarkers, and gastric mucosal damage.