New Insights Into Preeclampsia Genetic Risk Factors

Dr. Maria A. Nieves-Colón is assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and principal investigator of the Anthropological Genetics Laboratories. Her research uses genomics to investigate human population history in the Caribbean and Latin America. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Anthropology and History of the Americas at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, and her masters and PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. Prior to her current appointment she was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar at the National Laboratory for the Genomics for Biodiversity in Guanajuato, Mexico; and a Senior Scientist at Astrea Forensics in Santa Cruz, California. 

Dr. Andrés Moreno-Estrada is principal investigator of the Human Evolutionary and Population Genetics research group at the National Laboratory for the Genomics for Biodiversity in Guanajuato, Mexico. His research uses genomic data and computational tools to understand demographic and evolutionary processes shaping human genetic diversity, with a special focus on the Americas and the Pacific. He completed his undergraduate medical training at the University of Guadalajara School of Medicine, received a PhD in Evolutionary Biology and Population Genetics from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, and subsequently was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Moreno-Estrada is currently the co-chair of the International Common Disease Alliance (ICDA) Global Equity Working Group.

Chief Genomics Officer, UAB Medicine 
Wayne H. and Sara Crews Finley Endowed Chair in Medical Genetics UAB