Biosketch

Juan Carlos Gómez Verjan PhD is a Medical Researcher/Principle Investigator at National Institute of Geriatrics at México City. He holds a Bachelor’s in pharmacy by the School of Chemistry at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), a Master’s degree in Biological Sciences, at the School of Sciences at National University of Mexico (UNAM) and a PhD on Biomedical Sciences at the Institute of Chemistry of the National University of Mexico (UNAM).He has worked as FAS for Affymetrix and performed a research stay on IRB-Barcelona at the Network Biology lab.

Editor of two published books with Springer, Clinical Genetics and Genomics of Aging, and Principles of Genetics and Molecular Epidemiology, he has published more than 25 scientific articles and book chapters. His research interests focus on genomics and epigenomics of aging, network pharmacology and systems biology to understand aging.

Testimony

I performed a 6 month research stay on Computational Biology at Nuno Morais Lab, there I could learn about transcriptomics and alternative splicing. Such a stay allow me to have a new perspective on how a computational biology lab works and how to analyze a Transcriptomes with different tools.

Additionally, I was able to learn on several topics due to seminars and conferences that the IMM offers and to relate with other international peers and students since IMM offers a global perspective due to its international collaborations and international PI leaders.