Prof. Dr. Justo Lorenzo Bermejo

Ärztlicher / Beruflicher Werdegang
Professorship
Heidelberg University
Habilitation (Postdoctoral thesis) in Epidemiology and Medical Biometry
Heidelberg Medical Faculty
Leader of the Statistical Genetics Research Group
Institute of Medical Biometry
Heidelberg University
Scientist
Research Group Molecular Genetics of Breast cancer and the Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology
German Cancer Research Center
Three-month research stay at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Statistical Consultant at the IT company ‘Information-Works GmbH’, Hamburg, Germany
and lecturer in Data Mining at the Institute of Business Information Technology, University of Hamburg, Germany
PhD in Quantitative Genetics, University of Kiel, Germany
Master of Business Administration, Business School of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Mathematics, Spanish Open University, Spain
Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Teaching Portfolio
Introduction to Bioinformatics, Master in Medical Biometry/Biostatistics, University of Heidelberg
Biostatistics, Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology, Bioinformatics and Advanced Statistics, joint Master of Science in Medical Informatics of University of Chile and University of Heidelberg
Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, Master of Science in Medical Biometry/Biostatistics, University of Heidelberg
Genetic Epidemiology and Bayesian Statistics, Master of Science in Epidemiology, Institute of Medical Biometry, Epidemiology and Informatics, Mainz Medical University
Statistical Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology, Master of Science in Medical Informatics, University of Heidelberg
Epidemiology, Major in Cancer Biology organized by the Faculty of Biosciences, University of Heidelberg, in collaboration with the German Cancer Research Center
Genetic Epidemiology, Tampere School of Public Health, Finland
Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Heidelberg Medical Faculty
Postgraduate supervision
Renzo Sadath Salazar Sánchez: Identification of circulating micro-RNAs causally associated with gallbladder cancer and development of a multifactorial risk prediction score
Constanza Fabiola González: Gallstone disease, prophylactic cholecystectomy and risk of cancer in the Chilean population
Alice Blandino: Identification and validation of circulating small non-coding RNAs associated with gallbladder cancer risk
Valentina Gárate: Genetic and genomic characterization of Chilean gallbladder cancer patients
Linda Zollner: Analysis of the causal relationship between genetic origin and common diseases in South America
Heike Deutelmoser: Development and application of robust regularized regression methods in multi-omics cancer studies
Karen García Mesa: Interaction between genetic Genetic ancestry and breast cancer in Colombia
Carol Barahona Ponce: Identification of factors causally linked to the risk of gallbladder cancer by means of mendelian randomization
Felix Boekstegers: Gallbladder cancer in a high incidence population: Validation of genetic risk factors and risk prediction models
Regina Brinster: Optimal selection of genetic variants for adjustment of population stratification in European association studies
Rosa González Silos: Robust statistical methods for genetic association tests based on allele counts from sequence data
Pablo Felipe Báez Benavides: Linkage and association analysis towards identification of genetic markers of cholelithiasis and gallbladder cancer risk in Chile
Maria Kabisch: Imputation of missing genotypes in genetic studies through generalizations of the basic coalescent
Miriam Kesselmeier: Robust generalised linear regression models in genetic studies: Assessment of standard techniques and their generalisation to incorporate Hampel's function
Barbara Peil: Tailored reference panel selection using statistical depth to improve genotype imputation accuracy