Marco Antonio Rito Palomares is a Mexican biochemist and chemical engineer
Education
He graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Science in Food-Biochemical Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Louisiana Paz, Bachelor of Commercial Science In 1989, he also earned a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering at University of Birmingham in 1995.
Career
After working as a Postdoctoral researcher in Centre for Bioprocess Engineering at University of Birmingham and University of Cambridge, he returned to Tecnológico de Monterrey as Full Professor of Bioprocess Engineering. He play an important part in the foundation of the FEMSA Biotechnology Center, one of the first of his kind in Latin America. He is now the actual Director.
The opening of the center attended by President Felipe Calderon, who was very impressed with the lab and called the day of the event as "a day of pride for Mexico".
Then, between 2001 and 2002, he was at the University of Cambridge, also in England, where he participated in a study looking for a vaccine against cervical-uterine cancer.