Biography:

Dr. Melendez Martínez earned a BSc degree in Biology from the Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez in 2013, and a MSc degree in Genomics at the same institution in 2015. Then, he joined the research group of Dr Cuauhtemoc Licona-Cassani at Tecnologico de Monterrey and received his PhD degree in 2021 at the same institution. Nowadays, he is postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Obesity Research from Tecnologico de Monterrey supervised by Dr Jorge Benavides. He is interested in biomedical application of snake venom to treat metabolic diseases. He has published 10 research articles.