I trained in oncology at the Hospital de Oncologia SXXI in Mexico City and later specialized in gastrointestinal oncology. I completed a fellowship in Translational Research at the Institute Gustave Roussy (France) and was also a clinical observer in Gastro-Intestinal Services Unit in the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center (USA). Currently, I am a Professor of the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology and Chief of the Translational Medicine Laboratory at Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia in Mexico City. Over the past 10 years, I have been involved in national and international clinical and translational research projects, some of them under my leadership in gastrointestinal cancer. I have published 74 peer-reviewed articles (on pubmed; H-factor: 23; 1504 citations) in prestigious journals including, Journal of Clinical Oncology, JAMA Oncology, British Journal of Cancer and Scientific Reports. In addition, I have been a co-editor of the textbook Translational Research and Onco-Omics Applications in the Era of Cancer Personal Genomics (Springer Nature 2019) and have been invited to serve as the Associated Editor of Frontiers Oncology section Molecular and Cellular Oncology.