Rafael Vazquez‑Duhalt is working as a full Professor at the Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology of the National University of Mexico. He earned his PhD degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, he carried out a three-years Post-doctoral work in the University of Alberta, Canada. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Maryland and at the University of California, San Diego. He earned the Scopus Prize from Elsevier Publisher as Mexican researcher with higher H factor in Biotechnology and Agronomy fields in 2011, the Research Merit State Prize from the Morelos State Government in 2009, and “Thomson-Reuters” Prize to the most cited Mexican research article in Microbiology in the decade 1999-2009 in 2009. He is the author of 3 patents, published 2 books and more than 145 scientific articles. Rafael Vazquez‑Duhalt is working as a full Professor at the Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology of the National University of Mexico. He earned his PhD degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. In addition, he carried out a three-years Post-doctoral work in the University of Alberta, Canada. He has been a visiting Professor at the University of Maryland and at the University of California, San Diego. He earned the Scopus Prize from Elsevier Publisher as Mexican researcher with higher H factor in Biotechnology and Agronomy fields in 2011, the Research Merit State Prize from the Morelos State Government in 2009, and “Thomson-Reuters” Prize to the most cited Mexican research article in Microbiology in the decade 1999-2009 in 2009. He is the author of 3 patents, published 2 books and more than 145 scientific articles.

diagnostics and therapeutics of angiogenesis-related disorders