Francisco Barajas-Olmos earned a Bachelor's degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Guanajuato and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He is currently a Research Fellow in Medical Sciences "D" assigned to the Immunogenomics and Metabolic Diseases Laboratory at INMEGEN. Since 2016, he has collaborated on the Genomics of Metabolic Diseases research line, which encompasses projects aimed at understanding the predisposition of the Mexican population to developing metabolic diseases. He has made important contributions in this area, such as the publication of the epigenetic markers affected in the adipose tissue of diabetic patients.