Proffessor Javier Esteban Jiménez Salazar PhD holds a Experimental Biology graduated from the Iztapalapa Campus of UAM, member of the National System of Researchers (SNI level I) from 2018 to 2024.

Skills and Expertise:
Steroid Hormone Signaling in Cancer and Reproduction.
Incorporation of Gold Nanoparticles in Human Breast Cancer Cells.
Establishment of primary cultures obtained from tumors of patients diagnosed with breast cancer (Hospital Militar de Especialidades de la Mujer y Neonatología de la SEDENA).

Score: Taught more than 50 courses at undergraduate level and more than 25 at postgraduate level, graduated 20 students at undergraduate level, 4 at master level and 8 social services. Publications: 19 specialized research articles, indexed in the Journal Citation Reports, 5 indexed divulgation articles.

Academic Distinctions
1.- Research Award December 2008. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana awarded: First place at undergraduate level in the Division of Biological and Health Sciences for the research: "Effect of androgens on the regulation of Bcl-2 gene expression in human mammary carcinoma cells".
2.- “Medalla al mérito universitario” 2010-Spring. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana awarded: University merit medal for having obtained the best grades at Master's level.
3.- Young Endocrinologist Nomination June 2012. By the European Society of Endocrinology. Florence Italy. 15th International Congress of Endocrinology and 14th European Congress of Endocrinology (ICE-ECE 2012). June 5-9 2012. Florence, Italy.
4.- Outstanding Abstract Award June 2013. By the American Society of Endocrinology. San Francisco, California. For the exceptional research presented at the 95th Annual Meeting & Expo of The Endocrine Society at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California from June 15 - 18, 2013.
5.- “Medalla al mérito universitario” 2014-Spring. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana awarded: University merit medal for having obtained the best grades at the PhD level.
6.- Research Award 2015. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana awards the research prize in the area of Biological and Health Sciences, for the work entitled: "Membrane-Initiated Estradiol Signaling in Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and Cell Migration Through Regulation of Tight Junctions in Human Breast Cancer Cells MCF-7". Mexico City, November 24, 2015.
7.- Research Award 2017. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana awards the research prize in the area of Biological and Health Sciences, for the work entitled: "Increasing roughness of the human breast cancer cell membrane through incorporation of gold nanoparticles". CDMX, December 4th, 2017.