Carlos Oliva Olave

Ricardo Verdugo is a Veterinary Medic from the University of Chile (2001). He obtained a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California Davis (2007) after completing his thesis work on fine-mapping of QTLs for obesity in mice. Postdoc in Computational Biology in The Jackson Laboratories with Dr. Gary Churchill, where he applied statistical analysis of transcriptomic data from mouse crosses for the inference of gene networks underlying complex traits. A second postdoc at INSERM, where he applied Systems Genetics to human population studies of cardiovascular disease. From 2012 to 2022, he was Assistant Professor at the Human Genetics Program of the University of Chile. He is the Director of the ChileGenomico Project, charactering the genetic diversity of the Chilean population and its relevance for health. He also directs a genomics and a bioinformatics laboratory and leads U-Genoma (ugenoma.cl), a national academic network to support research and graduate level education in genetics, genomics and bioinformatics and the C19-GenoNet multi-centric COVID-19 cohort. Since July 2022, he is group leader at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Talca, in Talca, Chile.