Professor Verónica Souza Arroyo completed her undergraduate studies in Experimental Biology at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, a Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at UAM. She has been a Professor in the Laboratory of Cell Physiology of the Department of Health Sciences of the DCBS for 30 years, with a research line in Biochemical and Molecular Alterations that cadmium induces in various cell types of hepatic origin and its relationship with oxidative stress.

She was named SNI Candidate and then National Researcher Level I. She has been approved several research projects by Conacyt and by UAM. She has taught several classes at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Experimental Biology. She has advised social services, and research projects and has graduated nine masters and doctoral students in Experimental Biology. She has published 46 co-authored articles in peer-reviewed journals, 11 book chapters, and several national and international conferences. She has received awards for Research and Areas from the UAM. She was a member of the committee of the Master in Experimental Biology of the DCBS of the UAM Iztapalapa Campus.

Among the contributions of her research work are some biochemical and molecular alterations that cadmium induces, such as DNA damage and antioxidant enzymes, as well as the generation of free radicals and metallothionein-II protein, through the EGFR/Src signaling pathway in hepatocytes. From the findings obtained, it is important to highlight the induction of metallothionein-II, by an alteration in the autophagy process, in mouse hepatocytes fed with a high cholesterol diet and to further advance in the basic knowledge of the mechanisms of cadmium-induced damage.