Dr. Mario I Vega is a Associate Professor at Department of Medicine at UCLA. Currently, he is a full member of the National System of Researchers of CONACyT with an SNI-III CONACyT qualification, a member of the UNAM Graduate Program Faculty, and a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Dr. Vega graduated from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in 1992 (Chemical Sciences), and he received a Master's degree in 1997 and a Ph.D. degree from the School of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2001 (Immunology). He has published 58 international scientific papers, and has an h index of 25 and more than 2000 citations of his work (Scopus, 01/01/2024).