Professor María del Carmen Navarro Maldonado studied Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, obtained a Medal of Merit at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco (UAM) Xochimilco Campus, CDMX. México, she has a Master´s in Animal Production (Sheep and Goats) from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a Ph.D. in Veterinary Sciences in Reproduction with Honorable Mention from the UNAM. She carried out a Postdoctoral stay in the Department of Biology of Reproduction at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa Campus, where she has worked for 23 years as a full-time and indeterminate academic, participating in teaching activities, research, and dissemination of culture.

She has taught undergraduate courses in Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics, Animal Production, Biology, Experimental Biology, Biotechnology Engineering and Molecular Biology, at UAM Xochimilco, Iztapalapa and Cuajimalpa Campuses, UNAM, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas- UATamps., Universidad del Papaloapan-UNPA, Oaxaca and at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla-BUAP. At Postgraduate: Master's Degree in Animal Reproduction Biology and Doctorate in Biological and Health Sciences at UAM Iztapalapa Campus.

She was Alternate Academic Representative before the CBS Divisional Council, Coordinator of the Animal Production Career (LPA) in the CBS Division from March 2011 to December 2013, time in which she worked for the implementation of the New Plan and Programs of Study of the LPA, in the elaboration and procedures for the Farm Project for Animal Production, and in the evaluation of the LPA by the CIEES obtaining level 2, at the UAM Iztapalapa.

She was Head of the Assisted Animal Reproduction Research Area, leader of the Assisted Animal Reproduction Academic Group at the Department of Biology of Reproduction and Head of this Department from December 2013 to 2017. She has advised and directed Master's and Doctorate theses at UAM Iztapalapa Campus, at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia Mich. (UMSNH) and the Colegio de Postgraduados (COLPOS) of Chapingo, Edo. de México.

She works in two research lines: Biotechnologies Applied to Assisted Animal Reproduction and Embryonic Development in vivo and in vitro, she was responsible for research projects approved by the DCBS at the UAM Iztapalapa Campus. She was responsible for the Bighorn Sheep Reproduction and Conservation Program in México, from 2012 to 2016, in collaboration with the Dirección General de Zoológicos y Vida Silvestre of the CDMX Secretaría del Medio Ambiente. She collaborates with the UAM Xochimilco Campus, the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, the COLPOS, the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlán UNAM, in the production of domestic sheep and bovine embryos, and wild sheep by cloning.

She made short stays at National Universities such as UMSNH in the laboratory of Dr. Marco Cajero Juárez and in the United States such as the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the laboratory of Dr. Barry Bavister who participated in the production of the first "test tube” baby. She has collaborated with national and international private companies for the transfer of biotechnologies in assisted animal reproduction, transferring the technology for cloning of mammalian embryos to the UAM Iztapalapa Campus with the support of Dr. Gábor Vajta from the Central Queensland University of Australia, which has made the UAM the first institution at the National level to clone embryos of domestic and wild sheep, and domestic bovine, for productive purposes and conservation of the species.

With her research group, in July 2022 she obtained a patent for the UAM on the preservation of bighorn sheep, related to embryo cloning. She has published popular and scientific articles in local and national magazines and in national and international indexed journals, book chapters and scientific books (local and National). She has presented the results of her research in scientific forums and organized and taught national and international symposiums, courses and workshops on the application of animal reproduction biotechnologies, participated in Expos and in local and National Fairs. She has given master lectures on scientific topics with an emphasis on animal reproduction and humanism in national educational, scientific and general public forums. She was interviewed on scientific programs on the local network, radio and National Television (Radio Centro, UAM Radio 94.1 and Canal 40 ADN-40).