Marío Alberto Rodriguez is a Professor at the Department of Infectomics and Molecular Pathogenesis, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnical Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN). He is also a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. His laboratory studies the molecular biology of Entamoeba histolytica, the causative agent of human amebiasis. He received his B.Sc. at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Then, he received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at CINVESTAV. During his Ph.D., he was awarded the best Ph.D. thesis in the Natural Sciences Field.