Gabriela Mellado is the Sanitary Compliance Officer of the UDIBI from 2018 to date, previously she was the Responsible of R&D department. She is a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Programs of Immunology and in Science and Technology of Vaccines and Biotherapeutics, both belonging to the National School of Biological Sciences (ENCB) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), as well as in a Specialty Program at Higher School of Medicine. She earnt a Bachelor degree as Chemist, Bacteriologist and Parasitologist, with Master’s and Doctorate studies in Immunology, obtained at the ENCB of the IPN. She got a postdoctoral position at the Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA spending four years in preclinical studies of vaccine candidates for biodefense.

She worked as a Chemist at Aplicaciones Farmacéuticas S.A. of C.V. as well as in the Research and Development Laboratory of the Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine of BIRMEX S.A. of C.V. She carried out research stays at the Molecular Biomedicine Department of the CINVESTAV-Zacatenco of the IPN and at the “Molecular host-flavivirus interactions” unit of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France. She later became a researcher at the Universidad Veracruzana, and also has been lecturer in the undergraduate and graduate programs..

She has published 28 scientific articles (more than 300 citations, h-index = 12) as well as 8 chapters in scientific books. She received the 2008 Roche Syntex Dr. Rosenkranz Award for Medical Research in the Basic area. She is member of the National System of Researchers level 2.