Hugo Barrera Saldaña

Hugo Alberto Barrera Saldaña (born 1957, in Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican biologist, biochemist, researcher, entrepreneur, professor and academic, most noted for being author of several studies on molecular biology, epidemiology, and biomedicine, among which stand out his publications about the Growth Hormone family, human genome sequencing and development of HPV treatment and diagnostic methods.

In 1979, Barrera earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology, along with the extracurricular subjects of chemistry, genetics and microbiology to become a biochemist from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. He then became a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Houston, from which he graduated in 1982. In 1983, he did postdoctoral work at Louis Pasteur University with a specialty in Genetic Engineering. He also has a diploma in Conversion of Technology to Capital from the University of Texas and the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, which he earned in 1999. Provided by Wikipedia