Professor José Miguel Betancourt Rule is a Biologist (1969) with a Master's degree (1971) and Ph.D. (1974) in Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).He joined the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in 1974 as a full-time professor in the Department of Health Sciences, where he has worked uninterruptedly.

At UAM, he has held various positions, such as Coordinator of the teaching laboratories, Head of the Research Area in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Head of the Department of Health Sciences in the division of CBS. He was also the first Coordinator of the Doctorate in Biological Health Sciences. Professor Betancourt has published more than 100 articles in international journals and more than 19 in national journals, with 1726 citations to articles registered in Research Gate and more than 14 chapters in specialized books and textbooks.

He has trained several students, now professors at UAM, who currently have their independent research groups in various fields of knowledge such as: "Malnutrition and analysis with flow cytometry," "Molecular biology and toxicology of gametogenesis," "Andrology," "Gene expression-proteomics" and Professor Betancourt's "Cell biology and fertilization in mammals."

He has received awards such as "Distinguished Professor" from the Academic College of the UAM in 1998. "Merit in Genetics" was awarded by the Mexican Society of Genetics in 1999. "Distinguished Academician" awarded by the Academy of Research in Reproductive Biology in 2011. He is a Mexican Society of Genetics member and the "Academia de Investigación en Biología de la Reproducción AC".

Throughout 50 years of doing scientific research in the field of biology in topics associated with health, the research group to which he belongs contributed initially to the knowledge of the effects of malnutrition at the cellular level, later in the field of assisted reproduction obtaining pigs and sheep by in vitro fertilization, and the impact of gamete cryopreservation. On the other hand, in the field of reproductive toxicology, they have provided information about the damage caused to health by various chemical agents to which we are exposed daily, such as insecticides, herbicides, perfluorinated products, and parabens. The research model used to date is mainly porcine oocytes and spermatozoa (in vitro studies).