Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis MSc, PhD

Emmanouil (Manolis) Dermitzakis is currently Director of the Health 2030 Genome Center and Professor of Genetics in the Department of Genetic Medicine and Development of the University of Geneva Medical School. He is a member of the Executive Boards of Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) and the Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), a member of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, and is also an Affiliated Faculty member at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens in Greece. He obtained his B.Sc.

in 1995 and M.Sc. in 1997 in Biology from the University of Crete (Greece) and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Pennsylvania State University in the USA, studying evolutionary biology and population genetics of regulatory DNA in mammals and Drosophila. His post-doctoral work was at the University of Geneva Medical School, focusing on comparative genome analysis and the functional characterization of conserved non-genic elements. He was an Investigator and Senior Investigator in 2014. His current research focuses on the genetic basis of cellular phenotypes and complex traits.