Dr. Estefan Miranda-Miranda has been a senior scientific researcher for 35 years at the National Center for Disciplinary Research in Animal Health and Safety (CENID-SAI), which is 1 of 77 research centers at the National Institute for Agricultural, Livestock and Forestry Research (INIFAP) distributed along the geography of Mexico. Dr. Miranda-Miranda's main area of scientific research is antiparasitic resistance, the molecular biology of parasites, and parasite physiology. Miranda-Miranda obtained a degree in Parasitology from the Morelos Autonomous University of Mexico and a Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University; since then, he has been working fulltime as a researcher and has published numerous scientific papers on the subject.