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Juan Cruz Cigudosa Last update April/2009
Juan C. Cigudosa was born in San Adrian, Navarra, Spain, in 1964, graduated in Biological Sciences and obtained his PhD from the Universidad de Navarra in 1991, for which he received the 1992 First Class Honours Award.
He carried out his posdoctoral studies (1993-1997) at both the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Manchester, UK, and the Genetic Service of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York, USA, during which time he contributed to the clinical cytogenetic management of patients focusing on the study of genomic alterations occurring in lymphoma and myeloma.
He returned to Spain in 1998 to work as a Genetic Consultant at the Hospital Universitario de La Laguna, Tenerife. He joined the CNIO in the year 2000 where he has since been responsible for providing extremely specialised, cutting edge technologies in molecular cytogenetics such as spectral karyotyping (SKY), fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) for diagnosis and research, and array-based comparative genomic hybridisation (aCGH) for the analysis of genomic aberrations.
His research has focused on the role of chromosome aberrations in multiple myeloma, acute myeloid leukaemia and childhood sarcomas. His scientific contributions have been recognised through the 1998 Award to the Best Young Investigator in Human Genetics of the Asociación Española de Genética Humana (AEGH) and the Plate of Honour from the Asociación Española de Científicos (AEC) in 2002.
