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Biosketch:
Dr. Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez was born in Mexico City. He is has an M.D. with a Ph.D. in Human Genetics and Molecular Biology from the Johns Hopkins University. He received his training in business administration from the IPADE Business School. He is a certified Pediatrician and a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society of Human Genetics, the American Society of Gene Therapy, the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disease, the European Society of Inborn Errors of Metabolism. He was founder Director General of the National Institute of Genomic Medicine in Mexico, and Chairman of the Working Party on Biotechnology at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He is the leading investigator in the Mexican Genomic Diversity Project and the Mexican Medical Re-sequencing Initiative. Dr. Jimenez-Sanchez is Chief Scientific Officer of BioFields, Professor of Genomic Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and teaches Business in Life Sciences at the IPADE Business School. He was President of the first and second National Congresses of Genomic Medicine in Mexico, and serves as Council member of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO), as well as on the Board of Directors of the Public Population Projects in Genomics (P3G). He is founder President of the Mexican Society of Genomic Medicine and Regional Editor for Latin America and the Caribbean of the HUGO Journal. |
