Gabriel Betanzos-Cabrera is a researcher and professor in the Department of Nutrition at the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Mexico. He is also a member of the research staff at the Clinical Toxicology Department. He received his B.Sc. in Bacteriology and Chemistry in 1996, his master's degree in Biochemistry in 1997, and his Ph.D. in 2002 from the National Polytechnic Institute, New Mexico, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA. He has published in the field of medical and molecular microbiology. His research interests focus on molecular nutrition and clinical microbiology. His laboratory is involved in the study of functional foods, the antimicrobial activity of plant extracts, antibiotic resistance, food microbiology, and clinical microbiology. He is a fellow of the Mexican Society of Biochemistry and the Mexican Association of Microbiology.