Dedicating his career to genomics research and data analysis, Dr Omar Cruz Correa holds a MSc and PhD in Biochemical Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Following his PhD, he worked as an independent contractor for the National Institute of Genomic Medicine in Mexico City. Subsequently, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship and the role of Research Associate at the Gladman-Krembil Psoriatic Arthritis Research Program at University Health Network in Toronto.
Dr Cruz Correa is experienced in molecular biology, next-generation sequencing, bioinformatics, machine learning and statistical data analysis, providing support to projects ranging from small-scale epidemiological studies to single-cell transcriptomics, DNA methylation and miRNA sequencing.