Biography:
Andrés D. Klein received his B.Sc in Biochemistry and his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Dr. Klein did a postdoc at Stanford University (2009-2011) and a second postdoc (2011-2015) at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Currently he directs the Center for Genetics and Genomics at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile. Prof. Klein was awarded with the young Chilean innovator prize by MIT technology reviews (2013), he was selected as one of the top 100 young Chilean leaders (2013), and recently received the Pew Innovation Fund (2018), among other recognitions.
Title : Genomic variability of animal models as platforms for accelerating precision medicine: applications for lysosomal storage diseases and Parkinson’s disease