Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Unit

Dr. Gonzalo Colmenarejo Sánchez

  Senior Biostatistician, Unit Head

Gonzalo Colmenarejo got his PhD in the Biophysics area in the Complutense University of Madrid. Then was a postdoctoral researcher in the Chemistry Department of University of California at Berkeley. He joined GlaxoWellcome’s (later GlaxoSmithKline) R&D center in Tres Cantos, Spain, where he stayed more than 17 years. There he developed multiple statistical and machine learning models to predict biological activity form molecular structure, and was a statistical and data analysis support for a multidisciplinary and international group of biologists, biochemists, medicinal chemists and pharmacologists. He specialized in the massive data analysis of cellular and biochemical high-throughput screens (HTS), and processed more than 100 campaigns of multiple target classes, screening technologies and therapeutic areas, were he increased the number and quality of hits there obtained. He developed new theoretical methods for the prioritization of compounds in HTS campaigns, as well as for the automated chemical pattern extraction from sets of molecules. He co-leaded the Screening Analytics Investment Area of GlaxoSmithKline, an international team devoted to finding new approaches for the analysis of HTS. After joining IMDEA Food as Senior Biostatistician, hist current research interests lie on the use of generative Artificial Intelligence in the molecular design of bioactive compounds and drugs, and the cheminformatic analysis of food molecules and their biological functions and physicochemical properties. He is (co)author of > 50 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, in high-impact journals like Science, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, etc.

Email: gonzalo.colmenarejo@imdea.org 
Phone:  +34 91 727 81 00, ext. 510 

Andrés Sánchez Ruiz

  Research Assistant
Andrés Sánchez-Ruiz gratuated in biotechnology in Tarragona at Rovira I Virgili University. He has also a M.Sc. in Translational Medicine (Barcelona University) plus a M.Sc. in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya). He started his career at IMDEA Food Institute in April 2021 where he is working as a research assistant.

Email: andres.sanchez@imdea.org 

Dr. Roberto Martín Hernández

Senior Bioinformatician

Roberto Martín Hernández obtained his PhD in Nutrition Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Before focusing his career towards bioinformatics, he worked as a research technician at Bayer Crop Science division (Lyon, France), where he developed enzymatic assays for high throughput applications. Then he joined the Computers Architecture Department of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), and started working in the statistical analysis of massive Omic’s data. Afterwards he joined the R&D Department of the bioinformatics startup Integromics (Madrid, Spain), where he continued working on massive data analysis generated by distinct Omic’s platforms. During his industry experience he contributed significantly to the development of professional software packages tailored to the pharmaceutical industry.

He joined the IMDEA Food Research Institute on May 2012. With +12 years’ experience in bioinformatics and computational biology, he has co-authored more than 30 original research articles published in international journals, including the development of bioinformatics tools such as web applications and databases (http://www.nutrigenomedb.org). His scientific interests focus at deciphering the relationship between nutrition and health by applying integrative data analysis methods as well as advanced data modeling approaches.

Email: roberto.martin@imdea.org
Phone:  +34 91 727 81 00, ext. 510