Armand Sanchéz
Dr. Armand Sánchez Bonastre, is full professor in Animal Sciences (Animal Genetics) at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain since 1996. Head of the “Molecular Genetics Veterinary Service” of UAB, and head of the research group “Molecular animal breeding in Veterinary Sciences", an officially recognized quality research group (Generalitat de Catalunya, 2014-SGR-1528) since 1989. His activities focus on the application of molecular techniques to animal science, he is in charge of many projects funded by Spanish, international institutions or private companies.
Author of 155 papers published in international journals (SCI) and many internal technical reports in the field of animal genetics, given more than 150 invited talks, posters and demos outside of home institutions, and has co-organized two international and several national conferences. He has been member of the Spanish national commission for the individual evaluation of scientific activities (CNEAI) and Vicepresident of the Spanish Society of Genetics.
At present, he and his group takes part in animal genomics projects about genetic characterization of economical important traits for animal production, and in the development of analytical methods for molecular diagnosis in the "Plant and Animal Genomics Program" at the "Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG)" in Barcelona.
In the last 10 years the group has participated in numerous competitive national and EU projects in the frame of molecular genetics applied to animal breeding that have achieved most of their objectives and published 76 SCI articles. More focused in pig genomics, several QTL of economical importance and relevant candidate genes and markers have been described by his group and 2 patents awarded actually one of them in exploitation and licensed by UAB.
Also and as an applied result of his activity he founded in 2011 the spin-off company "Vetgenomics" the first SME participated by UAB a company of diagnostics in animal molecular genetics that actually employs 10 people.