Pérez-Neri I

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Towards the end of my undergraduate studies, I had to hand in a research paper on the genetic basis of a disease and I chose schizophrenia. One day when I was in the library of my faculty studying this topic, a colleague approached me and, when I told her about my work, she asked me something that I could not answer then with much certainty: is schizophrenia inherited? She told me that her father suffered from this condition, so she had a personal interested in this the topic.
When I finished my bachelor’s degree, I knew I wanted to pursue research in the biological basis of mental disorders. I looked for a thesis project in different institutions that would address such topic. In this way, I arrived at the Manuel Velasco Suárez National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, where I was given an appointment with the research director, Dr. Camilo Ríos Castañeda. Dr. Castañeda told me that he had begun, in collaboration with Dr. Jesús Ramírez Bermúdez, research on a biochemical reaction that was believed to be altered in schizophrenia: the synthesis of nitric oxide. I accepted without thinking twice, it seemed like the ideal project for me.