José Raúl Medina López is Professor of Biopharmaceutics, at the Department of Biological Systems, from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Xochimilco Campus, Mexico City. He obtained his M.Sc. degree from the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City.

In 1996 he joined the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco Campus as Professor. He has published more than 50 research articles in international indexed journals and more than 90 presentations, oral or poster, in scientific meetings. His areas of interest are in-vitro evaluation of generic drugs as well as derivative spectrophotometric analysis to identify binary and ternary mixtures of drugs in commercial formulations.