Dr. Angel Guevara is a Molecular Biologist specialist, who obtained his doctorate at the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille-France. His thesis work was developed at the Pasteur Institute of Lille-France and he holds a postdoctoral training in Genetic Therapy and Immunology from the University of California, Davis. He has been a professor-researcher at the Medical School of the Universidad Central del Ecuador since 2009. Dr. Guevara was coordinator of the DNA Laboratory from the office of the Attorney General of Ecuador (FGE) from 2010 to 2014, and a professor-researcher at the Army University (ESPE) from 2004 to 2010. He has been a quality control manager at the Clinical Laboratory AXXIS since 2019. Dr. Guevara has recently become the President of the Academy of Sciences of Ecuador.

Since 1989, he has been involved in scientific research on human diseases that affect the most disadvantaged populations and those with less access to healthcare in Ecuador. He participated in a research program leading to the elimination of Onchocerciasis, a parasitic disease in Ecuador, and this achievement was recognized and certified by the World Health Organization and the health authorities of Ecuador. Dr. Guevara is also the former Director of the Biomedical Research Institute “Rodrigo Fierro Benítez” at the Universidad Central del Ecuador in Quito, where he is currently developing scientific research projects.