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Mazzarotto Francesco
Course Catalogue:
Francesco Mazzarotto works as a computational biologist (with a mixed background between biology and bioinformatics) in the context of psychiatric and cardiovascular disease. His research is mainly focused on the analysis of next-generation sequencing data from cohorts and families, with the aim of identifying gene-disease associations and improving the ability to interpret genetic variants in the clinical context. This is done primarily by developing pipelines for next-generation sequencing data processing, integrated with algorithms to identify disease genes and pathogenic variants. Francesco is a member of the Section of Biology and Genetics (Bioinformatics Unit) of the University of Brescia, and of the Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics Group of Imperial College London, where he obtained his PhD in 2016. Currently, he also works as an external consultant for Fondazione Edo ed Elvo Tempia, in the context of a European project focused on a rare form of peritoneal cancer. More information is available in the Curriculum section.