Amalio Telenti

Amalio Telenti graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oviedo in 1983 and has a doctorate in microbiology from the University of Zaragoza (2000). He currently works as chief data scientist of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and as professor of Genomics in the The Scripps Research Institute. Both institutes are located in San Diego, US. Telenti joined the Scripps Research Institutes after a long and successful career. Previous to these appointments, he was Chief Scientific Officer at Human Longevity Inc., where he led the analysis of the first 10,000 deep sequenced human genomes and he researched the mechanisms by which genetic variations shorten life. His work in Switzerland is also worth mentioning. He served there as Professor and Director of the Institute of Microbiology of the University of Lausanne. He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Integrative Genomics of that university and of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. In addition, he is the recipient of the Swiss Cloetta Award in Medicine and of the Research Award of the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.