Prof. Dr. Justo Lorenzo Bermejo
Wiss. Mitarbeiter
(Medizinische Biometrie)
Schwerpunkt
Statistics for Molecular Medicine, Identification of Molecular Markers towards Personalized Prevention and Treatment of Gallbladder Cancer, Robust and Bayesian methods in Statistical Genetics and Molecular Epidemiology
Ärztlicher / Beruflicher Werdegang
- 2015
Professorship
Heidelberg University- 2010
Habilitation (Postdoctoral thesis) in Epidemiology and Medical Biometry
Heidelberg Medical Faculty- seit 2009
Leader of the Statistical Genetics Research Group
Institute of Medical Biometry
Heidelberg University- seit 2003
Scientist
Research Group Molecular Genetics of Breast cancer and the Division of Molecular Genetic Epidemiology
German Cancer Research Center- 2002 – 2003
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- 1998 – 2002
PhD in Quantitative Genetics, University of Kiel, Germany
- 1996
Master of Business Administration, Business School of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
- 1993 – 2003
Mathematics, Spanish Open University, Spain
- 1990 – 1997
Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Teaching Portfolio
- seit 2014
Introduction to Bioinformatics, Master in Medical Biometry/Biostatistics, University of Heidelberg
- seit 2012
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- seit 2011
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- seit 2008
Epidemiology, Major in Cancer Biology organized by the Faculty of Biosciences, University of Heidelberg, in collaboration with the German Cancer Research Center
- 2006 – 2008
Genetic Epidemiology, Tampere School of Public Health, Finland
- seit 2005
Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, Heidelberg Medical Faculty
Postgraduate supervision
- seit 2021
Renzo Sadath Salazar Sánchez: Identification of circulating micro-RNAs causally associated with gallbladder cancer and development of a multifactorial risk prediction score
- seit 2020
Constanza Fabiola González: Gallstone disease, prophylactic cholecystectomy and risk of cancer in the Chilean population
- seit 2020
Alice Blandino: Identification and validation of circulating small non-coding RNAs associated with gallbladder cancer risk
- seit 2019
Valentina Gárate: Genetic and genomic characterization of Chilean gallbladder cancer patients
- seit 2018
Linda Zollner: Analysis of the causal relationship between genetic origin and common diseases in South America
- 2017 – 2020
Heike Deutelmoser: Development and application of robust regularized regression methods in multi-omics cancer studies
- 2016 – 2019
Karen García Mesa: Interaction between genetic Genetic ancestry and breast cancer in Colombia
- 2015 – 2020
Carol Barahona Ponce: Identification of factors causally linked to the risk of gallbladder cancer by means of mendelian randomization
- 2015 – 2020
Felix Boekstegers: Gallbladder cancer in a high incidence population: Validation of genetic risk factors and risk prediction models
- 2015 – 2019
Regina Brinster: Optimal selection of genetic variants for adjustment of population stratification in European association studies
- 2014 – 2019
Rosa González Silos: Robust statistical methods for genetic association tests based on allele counts from sequence data
- 2014 – 2018
Pablo Felipe Báez Benavides: Linkage and association analysis towards identification of genetic markers of cholelithiasis and gallbladder cancer risk in Chile
- 2013 – 2015
Maria Kabisch: Imputation of missing genotypes in genetic studies through generalizations of the basic coalescent
- 2012 – 2016
Miriam Kesselmeier: Robust generalised linear regression models in genetic studies: Assessment of standard techniques and their generalisation to incorporate Hampel's function
- 2011 – 2014
Barbara Peil: Tailored reference panel selection using statistical depth to improve genotype imputation accuracy