Dr Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez

Chief Scientific Officer, BioFields
Chair, Working Party in Biotechnology, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)


Email: gerardo.jimenez@biofields.com
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Dr. Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez was born in Mexico City. He is a M.D. with a Ph.D. in Human Genetics and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins and training his 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 is founder Director 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). He is the leading investigator in the Mexican Genomic Diversity Project and the Mexican Medical Re-sequencing Initiative. Dr. Jimenez-Sanchez is Professor of Genomic Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Member of the National Academy of Medicine. He serves as Council member of the Human Genome Organisation, as well as on the Board 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.