Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV, IPN) México, 1984. Joined the Institute of Cellular Physiology, UNAM in 1991. Full Professor. Chair, Department of Neuroscience.

Awards and Honors:

Fogarty International Research Fellow, Lab of Neurobiology, Rockefeller University, 1985-1986. Postdoctoral Fellow, HHMI, Neurobiology and Behavior, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1987-1989. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept of Neurosciences, Roche Institute of Molecular Biology, 1989-1991. Grass Fellowship 1990. Marine Biological Laboratory Summer Fellowship, 1991. Third Word Academy of Sciences Fellowship, 1991. MBL Steve Kuffler Fellowship, 1992. External evaluator of CONACyT-Mexico projects since 1993. External evaluator of the PAPIIT program. SNI III

Intracellular calcium homeostasis in neuroendocrine cells and neurons.

Physiology of the adrenal and adenohipophysial gland in vitro

Proliferation and differentiation of chromaffin and adult brain stem cells

Involvement of the chromaffin cells of the adrenal gland in the pathophysiology of hypertension and stress response

Intracellular calcium signalling in ovarian follicles in response to LH and FSH in acute mice ovary slices