Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa naît au Mexique en 1968 et passe clandestinement aux USA à l'âge de 19 ans. Ne parlant pas l'anglais, il travaille dans une exploitation agricole pour financer des cours de langues.
Son éducation commence par son admission dans un petit College de Californie
Quiñones-Hinojosa started his education at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California. He completed his bachelor's degree in psychology with the highest honors at University of California, Berkeley.[4] He then went on to receive his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where he graduated with honors. He also became a US citizen during this time.[6] He then completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in developmental and stem cell biology at the laboratory of Professor Arturo Alvarez-Buylla.
Aujourd'hui, Quinones est entre autre neurochirurgien.
Fait amusant : les quinones sont une classes de molécules organiques impliquées dans la chaîne de transport d' electrons
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