Senior Professor, Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University (UPCH). Director of the Molecular Neurobiology and Genetics Unit, co-director of the Biochemistry and Membrane Biophysics Unit (Research and Development Laboratories, UPCH). Academic training in biology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Courses and internships at foreign institutions in neuroscience, biophysics, biological membranes, cell biology, and genetics. Experience in structuring and coordinating undergraduate and graduate courses in neurobiology, neurochemistry, and membrane biology. He has received funding from the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), and FONDECYT to study environmental factors involved in the first episode of psychosis, and from SMRI and NIH for the discovery of drugs for mental disorders from plants native to Peru. He has contributed to mapping research on mental and neurological disorders in low- and middle-income countries (a multi-regional project of the Global Forum for Health Research and the World Health Organization, www.who.int/mental_health/MHRC_FullText.pdf). He participates in international studies on human genetic variation (www.1000genomes.org), the genetics of mestizaje in Latin America (IP: A. Ruiz-Linares, University College London, www.ucl.ac.uk/candela), the genetics of early-onset dementia (IP: M. Grossman / K. Rascovsky, University of Pennsylvania), schizophrenia (IP: G. de Erausquin, University of South Florida), and response to lithium (www.ConLiGen.org). He participates in setting priorities for research in psychiatry and mental health at the national and international levels. He has collaborated in R&D&I activities for the agricultural industry in Peru, using his expertise in the area of molecular interactions. Experience (+20 years) in the evaluation and use of specialized equipment for biochemistry and molecular biology applications.