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Role: Program Head

Patricia obtained her Master degree in Mathematics in 1981 at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay (France), in 1983 her PhD in Physics from University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris (France) and in 1986 her second PhD in Seismology from the University of Tokyo. In 1987 she began her bioinformatics career at CEPH, institute created by Medicine Nobel Prize Prof Jean Dausset, with the management of data for the first high throughput sequencing project in France. From 1990 she is responsible of the data management for the Généthon laboratory. In 1994 she moves to UK to work in the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) as an R&D Team Leader, where she collaborates to International projects like the "Human Genome Project". In 2000 she moves to Geneva to work in GeneProt, a biotech company, heading the databases and data management group. Since september 2005 she is working as a consultant to CRS4, first as the head of the service line of the Bioinformatics program. Since september 2008 she is the technical director of Progetto UOMO and leads the Cheminfomatics Group. From 2006 to 2009 she has taken part in the EU-FP6 funded Set-Routes program for Women in Science, as "University ambassador"