Pedro Carmona Sáez

Profile

I have more than 25 years of experience developing statistical and computational methods for the analysis of genomic and biomedical data, with applications in complex diseases, molecular diagnostics, and precision medicine. I hold M.Sc. in Applied Statistics, M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and a PhD from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

My career spans both academia and industry, including research positions at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC) or Department of Computer Architecture at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where I contributed to pioneering bioinformatics tools. I have served as director of R&D department at the bioinformatics software company Integromics, driving the development of internationally adopted biomedical data analysis solutions and contributing to the company’s acquisition by PerkinElmer.

In 2013, I was recruited by the Andalusian regional health system, through Fundación Progreso y Salud, to establish and lead the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Unit at the Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO) in Granada. In 2020, I was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of Granada, where I currently serves as Principal Investigator of the Bioinformatics and Health Data Science Group at GENYO.

I am founding Member and I have served as Member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (SEBIBC)