Raul Cuero, PhD, is a microbiologist, scientist, and inventor who obtained his PhD in Microbiology from Strathclyde University, UK; MSc in Plant Pathology from Ohio State University, USA; and a BSc from Heidelberg University, Ohio, USA. He also received a Biology Degree from University of Valle, Columbia. Dr. Cuero has carried out most of his scientific research activities in the United States, and part in the UK during his PhD studies. He also attributes his creative scientific practice to many of his mentors and colleagues that he’s come across from many different parts of the world. He is a former research associate at the USDA, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1987. He is also a former research scientist of the Texas A&M University System on the campus of Prairie View, Texas, USA. Currently, he is a scientist and an international consultant and advisor on microbial technology for industrial and biomedical applications in the USA. Dr. Cuero fosters creativity in young professionals and other people through mentorship and/or conferences, internationally. In addition, he has written books on creativity and science, including Water and Ions as the Conditions Necessary for the Presence of Life: The Secret History of Life (2022), The Covid Ghost Game: Learning the Secrets of the Ghosty Virus (2023), Fear and Courage Today and Throughout Society (2023), How to Create: The Joy of Creativity (2015), Loneliness as a Source of Creativity (2014), and Between Triumph & Survival (2004). Also, he has other books in preparation to be published in 2025, including Scientific Invention: What it takes to invent, Polishing Diamonds, and a didactic sequel to The COVID Ghost Game. Dr. Cuero received the NASA Certificate of Recognition in 2007 for one of the two patented inventions that he produced for the institution, during his tenure at the Texas A&M University System, at the Campus of Prairie View, USA, along with the late Dr. David McKay, former JSC-NASA scientist. In 2008, he also received an award from the Texas A&M University System for this patented invention. Dr. Cuero has also been recognized with the Outstanding Alumni Award in 2010 from Heidelberg University, Ohio, USA.
Dr. Cuero's Higher Academic Achievements.
Dr. Cuero surrounded by all his US Scientific Invention Patents displayed on the walls of his home office in USA.
27 Current Patents
Dr. Cuero has numerous scientific inventions, of which 27 have been granted as patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office, as of 2025. There are several other inventions as patent pending, as of 2025, and more inventions are under process to be submitted for patenting.
Honors & Recognitions
Dr. Cuero received the NASA Certificate of Recognition in 2007 for one of the two patented inventions that he produced for the institution, during his tenure at the Texas A&M University System, at the Campus of Prairie View, USA, along with the late Dr. David McKay, former JSC-NASA scientist. In 2008, he also received an award from the Texas A&M University System for this patented invention. Dr. Cuero has also been recognized with the Outstanding Alumni Award in 2010 from Heidelberg University, Ohio USA.
In addition, Dr. Cuero has written numerous publications in different scientific and technological fields, including, microbiology, biotechnology, biotechnology fungal toxin as well as molecular and synthetic biology. Also, Dr. Cuero is an author who has written a number of books, including his most recent one published in 2022, Water and Ions as the Conditions Necessary for the Presence of Life: The Secret History of Life, which he attempts to explain based on his long standing scientific research experience why despite presence of water, in some instances there is no presence of biomolecules and/or. In addition, Dr. Cuero has published books on creativity, including How to Create: They Joy of Creativity, Loneliness as a Source of Creativity, as well as his biography Between Triumph and Survival. Currently, he is writing more books including one on the COVID-19 pandemic, and others on fear and courage related to creativity.
Dr. Cuero's Books to be published in 2025
Scientific Invention: What it takes to invent
Scientific Invention: What it takes to invent, is based on Dr. Cuero’s scientific knowledge and skills, as well as his technical, intellectual, and personal experiences to create inventions in different parts of world, including the challenges he had to overcome to become an inventor, as confirmed by his actual 30 inventions, of which 27 have been patented by the U.S. Patent Office and rest are patent pending, as of the year 2025. Also, this book is based on the process of what it took for other inventors around the world and throughout history to create inventions, including descriptions of their inventions and pitfalls. This book is timely written as an imperative due to today’s technological and AI society. The book presents the human and mental capacity required for inventing, in addition to using scientific knowledge base and technical experience and skills. The author also shares, in an enlightening chapter, about how his inventions led him to reconcile the concepts of geo-genesis and biogenesis toward a better understanding of biomolecular evolution.
Polishing Diamonds
NEW COVID Ghost Game book
This book is a sequel to the previously published book, The COVID Ghost Game, by Cuero and Gutierrez in 2023. It can be read straight through by children or adults as an amusing, sometimes tragic, story that conveys valid, scientific concepts related to the COVID pandemic, using an easy didactic for better comprehension of the scientific fundamentals related to this viral disease. Hence, the authors made an effort to integrate science with an intellectual view within an accessible didactic approach.
Dr. Cuero's Published Books
The Covid Ghost Game: Learning the Secrets of the Ghosty Virus
The objective of this book is to make people better prepared, emotionally and knowledgeable, for future pandemics. The book presents an accessible narrative that is easy to understand for anyone, even people without scientific background, including children (minimum of 6 years old) and adults of all ages. Hence, the main author wrote this book using a didactic which is humorous with colorful drawings and easily read legends without losing the scientific essence, including understanding of the disease, RNA, DNA, and viral variants and dispersal related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is also a source of inspiration for children and adults to have a natural and comfortable perception of science.
Water and Ions as the Conditions Necessary for the Presence of Life: The Secret History of Life
This book, drawing on the author’s extensive scientific research in different parts of the world and reports from other scientists, explores the intricate interdependence between water and ions. Water is well-known as the best diluent for supporting life, which allows the flow of molecules, which are made up of ions, from one particular point to another, but in many cases, despite the presence of water, life and biological entities are not found. This book allows the reader to…
Fear and Courage Today and Throughout Society
This book presents how fear and courage have been the main driving forces for survival and/or success throughout human history. Also, the book presents how fear has become more prevalent today than courage due to a lack of collective purpose, especially when society has become more individualistic or centrifugal and/or there is more world displacement of people, decrease in natural/economic resources, and increase of uncertainty. Also, the book presents different mechanism to keep a balance between fear and courage for harmonious survival and progress.
How to Create to Excel: The Joy of Life
Learn what creativity is, how it can lead to previously unforeseen solutions, and follow its lead toward a life of personal fulfillment and success. Find out and adopt the ten attitudes of a creative individual, which include aspiring to reach your maximum potential and always remaining open to adversity. Understand creativity’s evolution and how experiences are the building blocks of this mental state.
Loneliness as a Source of Creativity: In the Modern Technological Era
What if you never had to fear being lonely again—not because you could avoid the pain of being alone, but because you knew how to transform that feeling into positive action? Author R. Cuero, PhD, offers a compelling view of loneliness as a tool—not a burden. Cuero traces how, throughout human history, those who have learned the art of channeling their loneliness into action have achieved personal success and led society to progress and peace.
Between Triumph & Survival
In the eyes of Raul Cuero’s high school basketball coach, everybody is born with one particular attribute. And, according to Raul Cuero’s coach, Raul would never be anything more than a big and burly guy who could play sports. Why would anyone expect anything else from a guy whose grandmother couldn’t even speak Spanish. Here was a 109-year old woman who had lived in Buenaventura, Colombia her whole life and still could only speak an African language that wasn’t spoken by many people in Buenaventura. The change of house and language did provide Raul with a break from the regimented household of his parents.
Other Scientific Literature
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Anti-UV Technology Using Synthetic Biology
Workshop: How To Create By Doing It In Technological Era
VIII Americas Competitiveness Forum
In this photograph, I am enjoying interactions with Chinese people on my first trip to the country in 1986. This is an example of open ethnocentrism, as well as the cultural interests of Dr. Cuero.
About Dr. Raul Cuero
Dr. Cuero, who is now a scientist and inventor, as a child was attracted by the behavior of insects and lizards in nature, but he also was very keen in knowing the nature of plants while he accompanied his greatmother to collect plants for herbal medicine. In addition, Dr. Cuero as a child was attracted by understanding cars’ movement including their parts such as tires, batteries, carburetors, and radiators. Thus, he learned at an early age from a mechanic in a mechanical shop next to his house about these car parts during his school vacations. This experience gave him the appreciation in the value of doing things with his hands at an early age and allowed him to develop a passion for science.