Roberto Mayor was named International Scholar of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), EMBO member and member of the Latin American Academy of Sciences. Editor in Chief of the journals Cells & Development and Gene Expression Patterns and associate editor of many others. Founder and first president elect of the Latin American Society of Developmental Biology (LASDB). For more details about Roberto Mayor scientific and personal live, please see these interviews: 1. An interview with Roberto Mayor. Development (2020) 147 (3): dev187252. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.187252 2.A tale of turns and cycles guiding to neural crest migration - an interview with Roberto Mayor. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 65: 123 - 129 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1387/ijdb.200026mc 3. An Interview with Prof. Dr. Roberto Mayor. https://blog.mdpi.com/2022/08/18/developmental-biology-interview