Professor Dr. Gregor Andelfinger

Biography

Gregor Andelfinger obtained a medical degree from the University of Ulm, Germany, and completed a residency in pediatrics at the University of Geneva. After a research fellowship in pediatric cardiology, he pursued training in cardiovascular genetics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and molecular cardiology at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute. Since 2006, he has established the first Canadian biobank specifically designed to study the genetics of congenital heart defects across the province. His main interest lies in characterizing the genetic architecture underlying Mendelian genetics and complex traits in congenital heart disease. His laboratory utilizes cutting-edge techniques for gene discovery and genotype-phenotype correlation. Research funded by Genome Quebec focuses on diseases of the aortic valve as well as complex and common lesions of tetralogy of Fallot, exploring the links between genetic data from human genome studies and biomedical applications with patients and their families.

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