Snævar Sigurðsson

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Research specialist at BioMedical Center, University of Iceland

Contact: 
E-mail: snaevar@hi.is 
Phone: +354 525 5852

Location: 
Læknagarður - Lg-456, Vatnsmýrarvegi 16, 101 Reykjavík

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Snævar Sigurðsson

Education/Training
Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA     Post-doc  2009-2011  Genomics
Uppsala University, Sweden       Post-doc  2006-2009   Genomics
Uppsala University, Sweden       Ph.D. 2001-2006   Molecular Medicine
Uppsala University, Sweden       M.Sc. 2000-2001   Chemistry
University of Iceland, Iceland     B.Sc. 1997-2000   Biochemistry

Employment
University of Iceland, Research Specialist and manager of the Bioinformatics core facility of the Biomedical Center. 2018 -
DeCODE Genetics 2012- 2017. Project leader
Uppsala University September 2011-January 2012. Scientist in the vertebrate genome group.
Post-doctoral fellow at the Broad Institute in Cambridge,

Snævar provide bioinformatic support for researchers at the BMC in genomics, DNA and RNA sequencing etc. My research is focused on how to utilize genomic tools to understand diseases. Latest work focuses on transcriptomics in Breast cancer and breast tissue cell lines.