Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez

Director General
National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico
Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica

Dr. Gerardo Jimenez-Sanchez was born in Mexico City. He obtained his Medical Doctor degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He did his residency in Pediatrics at the National Institute of Pediatrics and earned his Ph.D. Degree in Human Genetics and Molecular Biology from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA.

Dr. Jimenez-Sanchez is Professor of Genomic at the UNAM and Resident Investigator of the Mexican Health Foundation (FUNSALUD). He is also Director General of the National Institute of Genomic Medicine and affiliate member of the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

His actual work focuses on the development of a national platform in genomic medicine for Mexico. This includes the conduction of major scientific research projects, including the production of the first haplotype map for the Mexican Mestizo population. Dr. Jimenez-Sanchez is a certified pediatrician and a member of the Mexican Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Medicine, the Mexican Society of Biochemistry and the American Societies of Human Genetics, Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Gene Therapy, the European Society of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and the Human Genome Organization (HUGO).

Dr. Jimenez-Sanchez work has resulted in the publication of articles and chapters in specialized journals and books. He received the Research in pediatrics Award of the Society for Pediatric Research in 1999. Along with his colleagues David Valle and Barton Childs, he did the first medical analysis of the human genome, published with the first draft of the human genome in 2001. He received the National Award in Clinical Investigation “Dr. Miguel Otero” from the Government of Mexico. In April of 2003, he was appointed Silanes Professor in Genomic Medicine. He is the regional editor for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Journal Genomic Medicine and charter member of the international Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G Consortium).