Santiago Villafaña researcher and professor at the Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politecnico Nacional. I obtained my master's degree in pharmacology in 2001 and my doctorate in 2004 at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Mexico, working with Dr. Enrique Hong. I have carried out research related to diabetes, hypertension and obesity, as well as hereditary genetic diseases, seeking the development of treatments based on gene therapy through gene silencing and gene editing.