Dr. Hugo Tovar is a Computational Biologist with a background in Biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he also earned his Master’s and PhD degrees in Biological Sciences. He has been a researcher at the National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) since 2016, working in Systems Biology, Computational Genomics, Expression Analysis, and Cancer Genomics. His current research focuses on transcriptional regulation in cancer, though he has also contributed to studies on Alzheimer’s disease, metabolic disorders, aging, and plant systems such as Arabidopsis thaliana and Bixa orellana. He has published 20 peer-reviewed international articles and is a Level 1 member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI). He currently serves as a Medical Sciences Researcher C at the Ministry of Health and as a Review Editor for Frontiers in Systems Biology Research.