Lorenza Diaz works as Principal Investigator (PI) at the Department of Reproductive Biology "Carlos Gual Castro", Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ). She is researching Vitamin D's biological effects on physiological and pathological processes. She received the Ph.D. degree in Biological Sciences in 2002 from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her general research interests focus particularly on Vitamin D metabolism, regulatory actions upon inflammatory mediators and hormone synthesis in the human placenta, and its antineoplastic effects in breast cancer. Since 2016, she has been awarded the distinction of National Researcher Level 3 by the National Council of Science and Technology. She has been a member of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at INCMNSZ for six years.