Ana María Salazar Martínez

Dr. Ana María Salazar Martínez is a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Research in the Department of Genomic Medicine and Environmental Toxicology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
She holds a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí. She also holds a Master's degree in Cell Biology and a Doctorate in Basic Biomedical Research from UNAM. In 2005, she completed a research stay at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Louisville, USA.
Her research interests have focused on the effects of damage to genetic material caused by toxic agents and the mechanisms of diabetes induction by environmental pollutants. Recently, she has been investigating the role of calpains in inhibiting glucose uptake as one of the diabetogenic mechanisms of arsenic.