Javier Camacho was born in Mexico City and studied Biology at U.N.A.M. He obtained his M. Sc. degree and Ph. D. in Physiology at CINVESTAV, I.P.N., and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for experimental Medicine in Göttingen, Germany where he started to study ion channels involved in cancer in the group of Prof. Dr. Walter Stühmer. Then, he formed his own research group in the Pharmacology Department at CINVESTAV, Mexico focusing on ion channels in cervical, liver, prostate, lung and pancreatic cancer. Together with his group and collaborators he has published original results in very important journals in the cancer field. They have also published reviews and book chapters, and filed several patents. These patents are related to early diagnosis of cancer and novel therapeutic approaches especially for cervical, lung and liver cancer. He has served as invited reviewer in almost 100 different scientific journals. Some of his projects have been awarded in Mexico by the industry. He spent a sabbatical year at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, collaborating with Prof. Dr. Terry Snutch. He has contributed in Ecuador to the development of basic cancer research at different universities. He has supervised more than 80 students in his lab from undergraduate to postdocs. Currently, he is the Head of the Pharmacology Department at CINVESTAV.