Manuel Corpas

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About Manuel Corpas

Dr Manuel Corpas is a globally recognized genomicist and health data scientist whose work has advanced the frontiers of equity in precision medicine. His research spans population genomics, pharmacogenomics, and biobanking, with a longstanding commitment to underserved and underrepresented populations. As President of the Spanish Congress of Genomic Medicine, he leads the largest Spanish-speaking platform for genomic health equity. He is a driving force behind major sequencing efforts such as the Peruvian Genome Project, which expands global reference datasets to include diverse Indigenous and Latin American populations. He has contributed to widely adopted clinical and open-source tools, including DECIPHER for rare disease diagnosis and BioJS for genomic data visualization. Dr Corpas’s leadership spans cross-sectoral impact: from co-developing GA4GH’s global standards for equity and inclusion, to contributing to landmark initiatives such as Deciphering Developmental Disorders trios), ELIXIR-UK, and GOBLET. As a Fellow of both the Alan Turing Institute and the Software Sustainability Institute, he is advancing the use of AI to convert health data into actionable, inclusive insight. A prolific author with over 80 peer-reviewed publications and a sought-after international speaker, Dr Corpas blends rigorous science with visionary public engagement. His mission: to harness the full potential of AI and genomic data to build equitable, globally scalable health solutions, with a special focus on Latin America and the Global South.