Jaime Lagunez

Jaime Lagunez is a scientist and activist included by Marquis' of Who's Who in Science and Engineering and Who's Who in the World. Awarded “LEADER OF EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH 2017” recognition by the AMES Excellence in Health organization he has been given expressed support by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society and the American Physics Society. On the 89 trillion USD, dedicated to dealing with a damaging carbon economy, he has stated that it should be invested in more than that: Currently the costs from environmental damage in lives, diseases and financial resources, calculated to be in hundreds of trillions of euros, are unacceptable. His proposal among other statements mentions that indeed, the ways of indigenous peoples are much more in tune with the environment should be incorporated in the project. Furthermore the need for infrastructure to deal with droughts and flooding are already a reality.

Promoter of the Consortium for Humanity project and World Medicine for the creation of more medical treatments. While he directed the coding of computer programs for modeling intramolecular communication and microarray analysis., his group proposed treatments vs HIV and breast cancer. His PhD thesis with Edward N. Trifonov of the Weizmann Institute, presented a universal triplet periodicity of coding sequences pointing to extremely conserved ribosomal RNA sites. Lagunez has spoken in favor of protecting archeological, historical and environmental heritage in Mexico, especially in Cuernavaca and Teotihuacan. Since 2002, along with professors Neil Wollman and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus, he worked in the Make TIAA-CREF Ethical.

In 2004 the organization Frente Civico, with which he collaborates received the National Mendez Arceo Human Rights Award for having protected civil liberties and the environment against repressive governments.

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