Dr. José Francisco Muñoz-Valle trained as a Chemist Biologist Parasitologist and graduated from the Autonomous University of Guerrero. He has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in Medicine from the University of Guadalajara, which he obtained with Honorable Mention in 2002. He received a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford in 2005. Since 1999, he has been a Professor at the University of Guadalajara, and in 2002, he entered the National System of Researchers (SNII), where he currently ranks at level 3. He is one of the youngest researchers in the country to reach level 3 in just 10 years. He is also a founding member of the Biomedical Sciences Research Institute at the University of Guadalajara.