Journal of Mucosal Immunology Research
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National Autonomous University of Mexico

Biography

Dr. Jorge Morales Montor majored in Biology in the School of Biology in Iztacala, National Autonomous University of Mèxico( UNAM) , obtaining the Degree in 1992. He obtained the doctoral degree in October, 1997. Its doctoral thesis was Awarded by Lola and Igo Flisser PUIS after the best posgrado thesis at national level in the field of parasitology, recognition that also already received as Mentor, since one of his former PhD students gained it in 2008. Dr. Morales-Montor was a Post-doctoral fellow in the Departament of Cellular Biology of the University of Georgia, in the laboratory of Dr. Raymond T. Damián, one of the parasitólogos most recognized in the world. It received a scholarship of Fogarty Foundation to carry out investigations on the schistosomiasis in the baboon, being Panamerican Fellow for 4 years. It was repatriated to Mexico in the year 2001 by the CONACYT and one integrated to the Department of Immunology of the Institute of Biomedical Investigations of the UNAM how Associate Investigator "C", and where he is at present a Titular Investigator C of Definitive TC in the Institute of Biomedical Investigations. In the Level of Cousins to the Academic Performance, it is a Level D, for the second consecutive period. To the date, Level is III for the second consecutive period in the SNI. With invitations, to give conferences on its specialization area about the world constantly (more than 100), and the invitations to be a part of the publishing committee of more than 20 international magazines indizadas, the international community recognizes the leadership of Dr. Morales Montor in its area, the parasitology. Its investigations are characterized by an exhaustive and meticulous experimental work, and its supreme scientific production already 140 articles in magazines indizadas international, and the majority like the first author or corresponding author in magazines of high impact like Nature, Journal of Immunology, Journal of Infectious Diseases and Scientific Reports, between others.

Research Interest

Molecular Parasitology, Immunoparasitology, Neuroimmunoendocrine Network, Innate immunity during Infections, Acquired Immunity during Infections, Immunology of Cancer, Immunoendocrinology, Neuroimmunology, Neurobiology, Neuroendocrinology