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(Image from National Newspaper) Jaime Lagunez is a scientist and influential activist.
He promotes his World Medicine project (#WorldMedicine), conceived for the facilitation of making new medical treatments in a context of a world-wide cooperatively owned company where the profits would go directly to each citizen of each country. He is also responsible for the Change. Org petition: united-nations-we-live-climate-collapse-have-the-united-nations-declare-state-of-planetary-emergency. He is included in Marquis' of Who's Who in Science and Engineering and Who's Who in the World. In 2017 he was invited to deliver the inaugural keynote lecture to the prestigious India Institute of Technology's annual technological event in Mumbai @Techfest .He has participated in research vs malaria using NGS Bioinformatics tools. In 2017 was Awarded “Leader of Excellence in Health", a recognition by the AMES medical organization of Latin America.
While he directed the coding of computer programs for modeling intramolecular communication and microarray analysis., he has registered treatments vs HIV and breast cancer for patent [1] 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.
Scientific and humanities based organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) the American Chemical Society, and the commission on human rights of the American Physics Society (APS), have expressed support, both for his social actions and scientific projects.
Currently he is also member of the National Prevention Science Coalition which using evidence based scientific criteria to change social policy and participated as founder.
He has been nominated twice for Harvard's prestigious Gleitsman Award, given also to Nelson Mandela in 1994 and Malala in 2018.