Romulo Garza Award winner 2021, in its INSIGNIA category, for her recognized scientific career as a research professor at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, her contributions to institutional life and to the community. Winner of the 2020 Research Award for young scientists awarded by the Mexican Academy of Sciences. In 2017, she was awarded the civic merit medal by the Government of Nuevo León for her outstanding work in generating knowledge to promote well-being through food. At an international level, she belongs to the community of young scientists of the World Economic Forum since 2018.
Janet has published more than 125 articles in indexed journals with a high impact factor, achieving more than 3,400 citations. In addition to identifying chemical compounds with antioxidant, anticancer, anticholesterolemic and/or antimicrobial effects, she has made important advances in identifying the molecular mechanisms involved. Her commitment to scientific and technological development is reflected in more than 12 patents granted in Mexico, the United States of America, Canada, and other countries. She is one of the founders JASEDA Active Ingredients.
She participates in various courses at the undergraduate level and has graduated 22 master's students and 11 doctoral students as advisor or co-advisor. She has collaborated on various projects with researchers from the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Texas A&M University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Manitoba, Nyanyang Technological University, among others. In his teaching work she has designed and implemented educational innovation projects and since 2017 coordinates an initiative called "Million Molecules" that seeks to generate value in by-products of the food industry in rural communities.