Á.A. Islas, a Research Associate of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences and member of the Vice-chancellor office of Postgraduate Studies of the State University of Puebla, Mexico (BUAP). He received his Bachelor’s degree from this University in Biology. Subsequently, Á.A. Islas was awarded a Master’s degree in the UK by Newcastle Upon Tyne University in Medical and Molecular Biosciences (Neurosciences). Back in Mexico, he obtained his PhD by BUAP in Electrophysiology and Molecular Modelling. Then he carried on a postdoctoral fellowship in King’s College London, UK. He has been sponsored by the Company of Biologists, Newcastle University and the Mexican Council of Research and Technology (CONACyt).