Dr. Bru Cormand, Full Professor of Genetics since 2019, leads the Neurogenetics group at the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics, University of Barcelona, that he heads. He has also been the Vice-Dean of Research at the School of Biology of the University of Barcelona, is a group leader at the Centre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), and member of the Faculty Board of the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB). He works since 1992 on the genetic basis of mendelian and complex neurological disorders, with stays in several research institutions (Medical Genetics Department, University of Helsinki; Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Barcelona; Genetics Unit, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). He is currently a member of several international consortia, such as the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC), the International Headache Genetics Consortium (IHGC), and the International Multicenter persistent ADHD Collaboration (IMpACT) His research combines genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic approaches in cells, organoids, animals and humans, with focus on brain diseases such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, substance use disorders, or migraine, among others. Bru has co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in journals like Cell, Science, Nature Genetics, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, American Journal of Human Genetics or Molecular Psychiatry.

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