Torrents Arenales, David

Life & Medical Sciences

Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS)

Phone +34934134074

Email david.torrents@bsc.es

Department Life Sciences - Computational Genomics

Keywords

Genomics
Bioinformatics
Cancer Genomics
Genetics
Complex Diseases
Personalized Medicine
Genomics
Disease
Prevention Medicine

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Short biography

After graduating in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, I obtained the PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Barcelona in 2000 in the group of Manuel Palacín working on amino acid transporters and associated genetic diseases. This PhD was awarded with the University PhD Extraordinary Prize. Then I moved with an EMBO long term fellowship to the group of Peer Bork to enter in the world of genomics, at the EMBL in Heidelberg, where I stayed from 2000 to 2006. There, I worked on genome annotation and analysis using bioinformatics approaches. Currently, since 2006, I'm a group leader at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center doing research on biomedical genomics, studying the relationship between changes in the genome and disease.