Sexual Dimorphism in Health and Disease

Dr Jorge Morales Montor obtained his doctoral degree in 1997. He performed his postdoctoral research at the Department of Cellular Biology at the University of Georgia, USA, with a grant from the Fogarty Foundation, and was a Pan-American Fellow for 4 years. Some of his most important contributions are: partially determining the role of steroid hormones in immunological sexual dimorphism, in the polarization of the immune response and in antigenic presentation. He has also contributed very relevant studies in relation to how different physiological stages, like the estrous cycle, age, sex, or pregnancy affect the functioning of the immune, endocrinological and nervous systems, and what molecules could be the determinants in this context of network. He has so far produced 173 articles in international indexed journals, has edited several books, published more than 55 chapters in books, and has been cited more than 4,000 times. He has also directed more than 100 students of all levels.