Genome Editing in Biomedical Sciences

Geraldo A. Passos received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry in 1988 from Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. His postdoctoral studies were conducted at the Molecular Genetics Institute of Montpellier (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS), France (1992-1994), where he worked with sequencing and physical mapping of the human immunoglobulin lambda locus on chromosome 22q11.2. For several years, he worked in close collaboration with the transcriptome and microarray team of the TAGC Lab (Technologies Avancées pour le Génome et la Clinique) at the Centre d ́Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy in Marseille, France (1999-2001), and then at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Unité 1090 at the Luminy Scientific Park in Marseille, France (2002-2017) to study the large scale gene expression profiling of the murine thymus gland. He is currently an Associate Professor of Genetics and Molecular Biology at the School of Dentistry of Ribeirão Preto, USP, and a collaborator at the Ribeirão Preto Medical School, USP, where he is the head of the Molecular Immunogenetics Group.