José Nicolás Medina is a bioengineer with a Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Bioinformatics from the Universidad de Concepción, Chile. He has extensive experience in genetics, bioinformatics, and omics data analysis, specializing in the processing and interpretation of transcriptomic, genomic, and metabolomic data.
He joined BrainLat as a research assistant in the Genetic Epidemiology and Epigenomics in Brain Health and Ageing group, led by PI. Carolina Ochoa-Rosales. In this role, he leads genomic data analysis with a focus on dementia outcomes and ancestry-specific studies in Latin American populations, applying both classic and novel bioinformatic approaches.
