Reyes Tamez
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Mexican people
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immunochemist
Immunochemistry
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. He is a former Secretary of Education for the State of Nuevo Leon, a former president of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) and a former Secretary of Education in the cabinet of Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada is a Mexican former politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.Fox was elected...
(2000–2006).
Biography
Tamez Guerra graduated from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León in 1975 with a bachelor's degreeBachelor's degree
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in Chemistry, Biology and Parasitology and received both a master's degree
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and a doctorate's degree
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in immunology at the National Polytechnic Institute
National Polytechnic Institute
The National Polytechnic Institute colloquially known as the Polytechnic is one of the largest public universities in Mexico with 153.027 students at the high school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels...
(IPN). Later on he did a postdoctoral stay at the Institute of Cancerology and Imnunogemetics at Villejuif
Villejuif
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, France
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.
From 1996 to 2000 Tamez served as rector
Rector
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of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) then from 2000 to 2006 he served as Secretary of Education in the cabinet of Vicente Fox. In January 2007 the Governor of Nuevo Leon Natividad González Parás
Natividad González Parás
José Natividad González Parás is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He is a former federal deputy and former governor of Nuevo León He is also married to Cristina Maiz...
designated him as the Nuevo León
Nuevo León
Nuevo León It is located in Northeastern Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Tamaulipas to the north and east, San Luis Potosí to the south, and Coahuila to the west. To the north, Nuevo León has a 15 kilometer stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent to the U.S...
Secretary of Education replacing former incumbent Yolanda Blanco.
In 2009 he was elected via proportional representation to the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico as a New Alliance
New Alliance Party (Mexico)
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deputy hence he will be serving during the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress
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Tamez co-authored two books in this area of expertise, has presented over 120 papers at national and international conferences and has published over 30 articles in several national and international journals. He has received the Jorge Rosenkranz National Prize in Medical Research and is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences
Mexican Academy of Sciences
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since April 2001.