Jaime Lagunez

Who is Jaime Lagunez?

Jaime Lagunez is a scientist and activist. He proposed therapies for cancer and AIDS maintaining investigations in bioinformatics. He has directed the creation of computer programs for modeling intramolecular communication and microarray analysis. 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 has contributed to the international coalition Make TIAA-CREF Ethical dedicated to lobbying shareholders of 400 billion dollar fund into divesting from corporations shown to have damaged society, among them Costco, Walmart, Altria and Coca-Cola.

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.