Professor Cynthia Sámano Salazar studied biology at the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Her undergraduate thesis was done in the area of Neurosciences at the Institute of Biomedical Research of the UNAM.

At the end of her degree, she had the opportunity to continue in the same line of research that she started in her thesis, so she decided to enter the postgraduate program in Biomedical Sciences at UNAM. In her doctorate she studied a process of segregation of transmitters and neurotransmitters in neurons. After obtaining her Ph.D. degree, she did a postdoctoral stay (two years) in the area of Neurobiology at SISSA (Trieste, Italy). There she started to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in spinal cord damage. From there, her research line has focused on the study and search for neuroprotective strategies in the face of spinal cord injury.

At the end of the postdoctoral stay, she returned to Mexico and spent a short period as a professor at the University of Guanajuato. In August 2014, she joined the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa Campus as a visiting professor. And since December 2016, she is an associate Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences of the Division of Natural Sciences and Engineering of the Cuajimalpa Campus.