Verónica Pérez de la Cruz received a bachelor’s degree in Pharmaceutical Biological Chemistry as well as a master’s degree in Biological Science from the UNAM and a PhD in Experimental Biology from the UAM-I. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Robert Schwarcz at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and founded the Neurobiochemistry and Behavior Lab at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Mexico. Over the past 10 years, she has been focused on the kynurenine pathway and redox modulation. Her group described redox properties of kynurenine pathway metabolites, new routes of kynurenic acid production, and their effects on brain tissue exposed to different pro-oxidants. More recently, she turned her attention to the relationship between kynurenines and cognitive impairment induced by heavy metals exposure, showing that kynurenic acid is involved in this paradigm and, now, she is looking to modulate its production to improve cognitive impairment.