Dr. Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez was born in Mexico City and received his MD from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He completed his residency in Pediatrics at the National Institute of Pediatrics and obtained his Ph.D. in Human Genetics and Molecular Biology from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA. He also holds a degree in business administration from the IPADE Business School.

Dr. Jiménez-Sánchez 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 and the Human Genome Organization (HUGO). He is a founding member of the National Commission for the Human Genome in Mexico and member of the Mexican Academy of Pediatrics, the Mexican Society of Pediatrics, the Mexican Association of Human Genetics, and the Mexican Society of Biochemistry. He is also a member of the Working Group in Biotechnology at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In 2007, he was appointed to member of the Board of Directors of P3G.

He is the leading investigator in the Mexican Genome Diversity Project and the Mexican Medical Resequencing Initiative. He is Course Director in the following graduate courses: "Introduction to Genomic Medicine", "Genomic Applications to Clinical Pediatrics" and "Genomics in Internal Medicine". Dr. Jiménez-Sánchez's work has resulted in the publication of articles and chapters in peer reviewed journals and books. He received the Research in Pediatrics Award from the Society for Pediatric Research in 1999. Along with his colleagues David Valle and Barton Childs, he produced the first medical analysis of the human genome. He received the National Award in Clinical Investigation "Dr. Miguel Otero" from the Government of Mexico. In April of 2003, he received the Silanes Chair in Genomic Medicine. In 2004, he received the Golden Masters Award from the International Forum of Business Administration.

Gerardo Jiménez-Sánchez, M.D., Ph.D.
Director General

National Institute of Genomic Medicine, Mexico
Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica
Periférico Sur 4124, 6 Piso
Col Ex Rancho de Anzaldo, México, D.F.

Phone: + 52 (55) 53501901
gjimenez@inmegen.gob.mx
www.inmegen.gob.mx