Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology
Research Interests
The goal of my lab is to understand the biology of neurodegenerative diseases (i.e: Alzheimer, Parkinson, Frontotemporal dementia), identify risk and protective genes and pathways, create prediction models and identify druggable targets, by generating and analyzing human multi-tissue multi-omic data (genetic, genomics, proteomics, epigenomics, and lipidomics) from large and well characterized cohorts.
Professional Education
- BSc: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 2002
- PhD: Molecular and Cell Biology: University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 2005
Affiliations
- Knight-ADRC Genetics and Hight-throughput Omics Core leader
- DIAN (The Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network) Genetics Core co-leader
- Scientific advisor McDonnell Genome Institute (MGI)
- Director NeuroGenomics and Informatics lab
Cruchaga Lab
My research interests are focused on leveraging multi-omic data (genetic, genomics, proteomics, epigenomics, lipidomis and others) and deep clinical phenotypes from large and well characterized neurodegenerative diseases (i.e: Alzheimer, Parkinson, Frontotemporal dementia) cohorts in order to identify novel genes, pathways, molecular biomarkers and drug targets for these diseases.