Barajas-Martinez Hector
Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, USA
Biography
Barajas-Martinez H has worked at the Masonic Medical Research Laboratory as an Associate-Professor/Research Scientist for the past 10 years. Throughout his tenure, he has been fully committed to advancing translational research in the field of genetics in cardiac arrhythmias. His role as a Director in our Molecular Genetics Program is to establish new strategies for molecular genetic approaches to identify new genetic markers in inherited sudden cardiac death syndromes. He played a key role in the discovery and characterization of more than 12 new genes related to Brugada, early repolarization syndromes and short and long QT syndromes, which were published in more than 50 top tier scientific journals.